Medical treatment for common man
On various occasions the common man faces great hardships while being admitted at government hospitals. They do not receive proper medical treatment on most occasions. Whenever the number of patients at hospitals increases, the situation ultimately turns from bad to worse. During recent times, patients of Covid-19 turning positive have been facing great problems at the Covid care centres. In fact they do not secure any relief at such places. It is a general trend for the MLAs and Ministers to receive exemplary medical treatment during their stay at government hospitals. Even specialised doctors from far off places like Delhi are being brought to the state for providing the best of treatment for the politicians in power. In case need arises, the concerned politician is even taken to Delhi or America.
However in case a common man faces an emergency situation, he has no alternative but to lose his precious life. On various occasions the Health Minster Vishwajit Rane has stated that the Goa Medical College Hospital has been possessing the best of facilities for delivering medical treatment. If this is the case, one fails to understand as to why politicians are carried to distant places whenever their disease turns more serious. If a common man has to suffer without timely attention and satisfactory treatment at any instance, then politicians too should be made to stay at the government hospitals itself so that they would be able to understand better the miseries of the common man at such hospitals.
Since the government is of the people, for the people and by the people, acquiring timely and better medical facilities is their basic right. The state government has to fulfil this necessity on priority basis. Only then can we boast of welfare of the common man in its right spirit.
Pravin U Sardessai, Adpai
Prepare for the best!
As Goenkar, let’s back paddle to our ancestral days, though a newspaper then was a rich man’s take, but all they shared during the union territory time was only ethical governance, maintaining the highest integrity that all Goemkars lived with Goemkarpon. Imagine, assets were never locked, having immense faith on the safe systems. Today, all an ethical Goemkar can read or hear is disgraceful, mostly on Goa’s environmental disturbance or personal assets being bulldozed, the way Goem seems to be managed this days.
Yes, if you diagnose the ethnicity of those governing Goem today, none of them seems to be migrants, and so, Goemkar is wondering, where did they lose their Goemkarpon? Some are confused thinking, these Goemkar ruling Goem are now stressing us at our own valuable votes that brought them to power, but, sadly they have to live with ‘konko’ sign.
Let’s read famous quote ”When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don’t repeat it” but, we Goemkar being Goemkars innocent suffers, rather moving to wise directions of the younger generation. The question we Goemkar should ask, do Goemkars really need Girish Pillai or Kamla Prasad Yadav in our governance. It is high time to think ahead of our next generation and say enough is enough, we will not get misguided as we prepare for the 2022 election!
Gaston Dias, Mumbai
Is the time ripe to resume mining?
The experiences of the past indicate that mining activities in the state should not resume yet very soon. The terms and conditions laid down by the Supreme Court have not yet been implemented in letter and spirit. The following conditions need to be focused on if mining is to be resumed: The staggering amount of Rs 35,000 crore as unearthed by the Justice M. B. Shah Commission as illegal mining dues have not been recovered as yet, though smaller amounts are set to be recovered in four months time, which is not enough and is hardly one tenth of the total illegal mining amount.
The road map for the restoration of exhausted mines have still not yet been conceived. The Mining Corporation has not yet been formed. The Permanent Fund has still not yet been made fully operational. A mining dividend of at least Rs 1,000 each could be paid to all the registered citizens of Goa who do not have a state or central government job, those who receive pension from the state and the central government, and those who are allotted Griha Aadhaar, and Dayanand Social Welfare Scheme.
Mining is a one time activity and during the pendency of mining in Goa, those who are not benefited by the government should be covered by the mining dividend. The idea is to cover everyone as being beneficiaries of government sources of income. At the present moment, the time is not yet ripe for resumption of mining.
Elvidio Miranda, Panjim
A big joke!
George Orwell in his “Animal Farm” said, “in Soviet Russian Socialism, all are equal but some are more equal” and in fact according to me in our Socialism borrowed from Soviet Russia, some are not only more equal but are sacrosanct requiring divine type of treatment they get during their sicknesses. These privileged people are coming from the ruling elite segment of our society and having all the powers at their disposal they get best of treatment like super human beings compulsorily needing extra ordinary treatment.
See the medical treatment they get in the private hospitals while the common men are dumped in the government hospitals where there is no surety if they are going to survive or not. In fact there is a vast difference between the treatment provided in the government hospitals and private but only the more affluent can afford treatment in private hospitals and yet we boast of our equality which is nothing but a big joke.
Members of political class normally do not get admitted in the government hospitals for Coronavirus inspite of the tall claims by the authorities concerned that government hospitals are better equipped with all the facilities but in reality public feels lot of risks are involved in the government hospitals. Unless this fear is removed from the minds of public, there cannot be any confidence in the minds of the public who feel there is no equality in medical treatment. For example if he was an ordinary citizen, he would never get such a fabulous and the expensive treatment at the cost of tax payers money. Public fund is wrongly utilized by our political leaders in the name of equality which is the fake equality.
A.Veronica Fernandes, Candolim
Review for Uniform National compensation
There should be formulation of a national policy for uniform compensation for families of those who have died due to the coronavirus disease.
At present every state has a different policy and gives compensation as per its financial power. The majority of the country’s population belong to financially weaker sections, wherein only one person is an earning member and others in the family are solely depend on that income for their sustenance.
So many people have died in India due to COVID-19 and the victims are not getting equal compensation. The death rate due to COVID-19 is exponentially increasing with each passing hour, especially in cases of frontline workers such as police officials, doctors, paramedical staff, government employees, journalists, thereby rendering the family of the deceased in an extremely vulnerable position.
The Centre as well as state governments should formulate an appropriate compensation plan to provide ex-gratia monetary compensation to the kin of essential workers and healthcare workers who have succumbed to COVID-19. The COVID-19 has no vaccine till date and has been declared as a notified disaster.
K.G.Vilop, Chodan
