Team Herald
PANJIM: The State Health Department is contemplating introducing the Goa Clinical Establishments Bill during the monsoon session of the Legislative Assembly, which is likely to empower the department to crackdown on clinics operating without required medical qualification.
The Department is also planning to launch liver screening at sub health centres across the State along with I-stat machines, which can check 28 parameters of blood.
Addressing media persons, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said, “The Act has been due for long and we have to introduce it, mostly in the coming season.”
Goa Clinical Establishments (registration and regulation) Bill was initially drafted in 2014 but was not introduced in the House.
Rane also said that the I-stat machine would be made available at all health centres so that blood can be checked on 28 different parameters. “The machine is currently operational at GMC and I have done my father’s test on it and found it very accurate,” he said.
“We are also launching liver screening for all citizens in those health centres too along with GMC,” he added.
The Minister said that under the Central government’s Ayushman Bharat Yojana, nearly ten Health and Wellness Centres will be launched across the State. He added said that administrative approvals have been granted for construction of new primary health centres at Candolim and Benaulim.
