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PANJIM: The issue of a huge heap of garbage within the Goa Medical College and Hospital Complex was raised by Opposition legislators led by former Health Minister Vishwajit Rane, who questioned the government’s inaction on the issue.
“There is a huge garbage heap lying within the (GMC) precinct. Instead of people getting cured of diseases they may contract them,” Vishwajit said. “So also sewage is overflowing from some blocks of the Goa Medical College,” he said flashing photographs of the heap that he claimed he had clicked on the same morning of the debate.
Strangely, however, Health Minister Laxmikant Parsekar refrained from replying to the concerns raised by Vishwajit.
Parsekar’s replies were on other aspects of improving infrastructure of the hospital, including that of operating theatres. “During my two day stay at the hospital, along with either the dean or the medical Superintendent I noticed that the 12 operating theatres are also in bad shape. We have decided to renovate the operating theatres, six at a time,” Parsekar said.
While six theatres are being renovated, the equipment will be shifted to the five new operating theatres. He also said that he would renovate the entire Goa Medical College one project at a time and the work would be given to the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC)
“The GMC complex is so large that we have to give the GSIDC one project a year,” Parsekar said.
He said that in GMC a new super specialty block is coming up as well, as the current chest and TB Hospital that is currently functioning from Tambdi Mati in St Inez would be shifted to the GMC complex.
Parsekar claimed to have recruited as many as 87 doctors ever since he took charge as well as 157 nurses on permanent basis and another 128 would the taken on contract basis.
