GL responds: Is IFFI of three weeks ago responsible for the "unimpressive" health care advances in Goa for the last ten years? Without IFFI, Goa would have no medical advances and also no IFFI. Perhaps more of the same of what it has been happening for the last forty years. IFFI is a convenient scapegoat for those Bureaucrats, most of whom are our ganv-bhavs and ganv-bhoinis, that DON'T WANT TO WORK HARD THEMSELVES to improve Goa.
After all we are all so busy whining about IFFI, where is the time to be productive (before or after IFFI)? The NYC doctor will tell you that on the whole, the healthcare in government hospitals in NYC is also "unimpressive". Their answer was (to get impressive healthcare) in NYC was to encourage private health care (and education) and let the consumer "drive the quality and advances" of healthcare. Samir Kelekar: Here are experiences of a Goan medical doctor based in NYC, someone who was visiting Goa during IFFI times, and who with all the idiosyncancies loves Goa very much!! Goan Doctor in New York City: was unimpressed with healthcare advances in goa. It seems as if nothing has moved in last ten yrs. Bureaucracy is mind boggling. Here is something funny I wanted to tell you. I was planning on seeing the marathi movie Shwaas hich was being screened at IFFI and had great reviews. The movie was supposed to be screened at 6 pm so I enquired about getting the tickets, and was told that I have to get it from ticket booth at miramar! (screening was at INOX GMC), OK, do you think I could have made it to the movie after buying ticket at miramar- absolutely not, because the ticket booth was to open at 6 pm and the traffic was diverted via Saint Inez."
