Team Herald
PORVORIM: The State government has finalized Pricewaterhouse Coopers India (PwC) as a consultant to help run Goa’s second medical college, to be set up in the South District Hospital. The medical college would be set up in lines with NITI Aayog’s policy of one medical college per district.
In his Action Taken report on Budget 2020-21, submitted on the Floor of the House, the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant said that the government is under the process of empanelment of PwC as a Consultant for the South Goa District Hospital.
“Once the finance department approves the empanelment of PwC, the government will ask the selected partner to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) under the given guidelines,” Sawant said.
In the Budget 2021-22, presented on Wednesday, the Chief Minister announced that the 500-bedded South Goa district hospital will be inaugurated by April 2021.
The government also proposes to provide full fledged cardiac facilities at the hospital.
The government intends to run the medical college on public private partnership (PPP) basis.
The government had initially zeroed up PwC and Ernst and Young as consultant, of the total five empanelled consultants registered with the Union Health Minister.
