--- On Tue, 2/9/08, jane gillian rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: jane gillian rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Goanet] GMC behaviour
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], goanet@lists.goanet.org
> Received: Tuesday, 2 September, 2008, 6:55 PM
>
> I have visited patients in GMC on many occassions and I
> have never experienced filth in the hospital or uncouth
> behaviour from the staff.
>
I am not quite sure I understand Jane. Is she saying that she has actually
visited the GMC and actually found it clean?
My experiences (having visited the place a few years ago):
1. Cleaners dumping rubbish out the window of the ward they were cleaning -
when remonstrated, said they had no option
2. Overflowing toilets
3. Cows grazing on the rubbish
4. Dogs everywhere
5. Windows not cleaned (appears not cleaned since they were installed)
6. Dingy public room, having only one of three tubelights working (tubelights
were required because hardly any light filtered through the one window wchih
was covered in dust), with a scrawl on the wall on the side of the cafetaria
"shop" reading "Garbos will take over" (presumably written by an Australian,
as garbo is Aussie slang for garbage collectors).
7. Walls and most corners covered in paan-spit.
8. No lifts or elevators in the buildings. Quality of "finish" of the buildings
has much to be desired. No ramps between the road and the building,
necessiating strong assistance to help people on crutches to negotiate the
steps.
9. Wheel-chairs of a design of the 1930s - just a metal chair with wheels
attached, heavy, difficult to maneuvre, no padding. Ditto with stretchers.
Could add more, but I refrain.
Asilo of Mapuça is another story. Have you walked / biked / driven past the
Asilo hospital? Last time I did, there were raw bloodied bandages outside
covered in blue-bottle files, smell of anitibiotic everywhere, a prime location
for infection if there was one.
Compare that to the previous Hospital de Ribandar and Hospital Escolar, if you
have contacts with any people who were treated there in the early 60s. I
undertsand Dr. José Colaço did his training there during that period.
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