Dear Gabriel, The impression you have given of the Goa Hospitals is similar to the one I have on my digital camera. I could not of course capture the perfume.
The only part I disagree with your post is the time frame you have placed my training at the two hospitals. Needless to say, even when I commenced my training i.e. when they no longer were 'Hospital de Ribandar and Hospital Escolar', the hospitals were as clean as 4 star hotels. I first saw Asilo and Hospicio only in the early 1970s. They were positive dumps. So, I have no method of comparing except from the opinions of my seniors who had worked there before they were "dumpified". jc == 2008/9/2 Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to Jane Gillian 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)........ 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 understand Dr. José Colaço did his training there during that period.
