Team Herald
PONDA: Patients, their relatives, pregnant women, beside sick children are facing hardships while visiting Ponda sub-district hospital in absence of a direct bus service and have to walk over a kilometre to get to the hospital.
People visiting the hospital have now demanded a mini-bus service from the hospital to the bus stand.
Ponda sub-district hospital has almost become a mini-GMC of Ponda taluka, with thousands of patients and relatives visiting the hospital, apart from those coming in from surrounding talukas.
In absence of a bus service, many poor people have to rely on rickshaw to proceed towards the hospital which is expensive.
With the growth of population and migrant influx, due to industries and other establishment in the region, Ponda sub-district hospital has over the years become important centre to address various medical needs, with hundreds availing benefits at various OPD at the hospital, which has over hundred beds.
Women coming with children for medical check-up and pregnant women, besides other patients too face hardships and have to walk from the bus stand to the hospital due to the non-availability of bus service to the hospital.
Although there are many other PHCs in taluka, thousands rely on sub-district hospital for their medical needs, as only serious patients or those with major illness are sent to GMC, Bambolim.
