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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Dr Jose Colaco wrote:
re: #3: Arguments aside, would Mr. Noronha care to advise us of the (available) statistics of this delivery-related migration to Goa?
The Belgaum-hospital scene has reportedly raced AHEAD in the PRIVATE sector. The facilities being used by these delivery-related migrants in Goa, are PUBLICly funded. Accordingly, I submit that the argument put forth by Mr. Noronha is a non-starter.
In any event, The standard of Hospital Care was NOT the primary concern -
expressed by me wrt this topic. It was the Vote-Bank, MEDICLAIM ..AND .. the FUNDING for MIGRANT HEALTH CARE that I raised. Perhaps someone who
lives closer to South Goa, than I do, will give some input - preferably
someone who works in the Public Health sector in South Goa.
Lengthy arguments have come up on this subject, and a lot of other side issues have cropped up. Inspite of this, I would still question the claims that migrant women come to Goa to deliver their babies because of the benefits they would gain from being born here.
This is simply untrue.
Benefits in Goa are *not* dependent on the place of birth, but a certificate showing 'proof of domicile'. It doesn't matter where one is born.
In this background, how would your argument hold?
You've got your arguments simply badly confused (see below); getting a ration-card, residence certificate and Mediclaim has nothing whatsoever to do with the place of birth, but, if anything, with domicile.
That there are manipulations within the system is true, but this has nothing to do with the argument that you are building up.
FN
PS: The wider point I'm trying to make here is that while the Parrikars, Parulekars (and others more subtly) have worked on vote-bank politics, aren't some 'opinion leaders' fuelling Goan chauvinism against the migrant, using a whole set of at least untruths and half-truths, if not blatant lies?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 24 16:06:57 2004
There are a good number of pregnant women in Karnataka & Hyderabad who pack their khatli-potli and travel to Goa for delivery. Not that the hospital facilities in Goa are good (they might coincidentally be) - but for an incentive allowance paid for by the "Chairmen of the Voting Banks"
After delivery, the next stop is the Mamlatdar. A ration Card later - they then become eligible (along with their family - with Panchayat residence certificates .... of course) for MEDICLAIM covered Health Care.
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