First of all, I want to commend Gaspar Almeida and Uly Menezes for the tremendous service they continue to provide esp for Goans in and from the Gulf. I say to them ....Keep up the good work.
I also say to the good Goans from the Gulf. Esp in these difficult economic times .... conserve your funds. Please remember too: All the funds you waste on hosting these worthless Goa politicians will ONLY gain you promises.....which will NEVER be kept. After that, you will be forgotten AND also blamed for the rise in the cost of living in Goa. RE : the following article relating to GMC. There are two parts to this story (a) Inevitable (b) Shame (a) It was inevitable that GMC would be flooded (besides with water) with patients from surrounding areas of Karnataka. Poor people go to places they are able to receive free health-care. The present over-crowding of GMC is just the tip of the iceberg. Do remember that trainloads of people arrive in Goa daily via the George Fernandes Railgaddi. We know where they turn up for their 'daily activities'. Guess where they will turn up for healthcare? The healthcare tab is one which Goan taxpayers will have to pick up and manage. One way GMC will manage this load is by naturally lowering the standard of health care. Where will the Goan taxpayers go for their healthcare? Perhaps, Goans should organise more IFFIs - so that they can escape reality more often. I have a feeling that Caju Feni will NOT be enough. To those among us who have NOT yet heeded the words of Rajan Parrikar ..... I say "All the Best". Please cut off your fans - for, this stuff will surely hit your fans in short order. (b) It is a shame that the GMC hospitals which were of 5-star hotel standards not too long ago, have been reduced to ghettos. Thank you Goa politicians and bhaille civil servants. In spite of this, GMC continues to produce world-class doctors and lots of money for the corrupt ones who claim to be 'managing' the place. just my view jc and Yes: A very big Thank you to ALL the Freedom Fighters (real and alleged). I hope you are taking credit for this brilliant mess YOU organised without organising squat. What did you say? I must come and fight it out there instead of just being an Expat (as the veritable journo, Frederick Noronha would say)? Right. Goa World <[email protected]> wrote: Shortage of beds leaves newborns in GMC corridor TNN 28 November 2009, 04:40am IST PANAJI: Cradling their newly born babies in their arms, mothers or their kin had to sit on the floor or on seats in the corridor for want of bed space in the obstetrics and gynaecology ward of the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim on Friday, raising fears of the babies and mothers being exposed to infections and possibly unhygienic conditions. Confusion prevailed in and outside the ward as mothers, and in some cases relatives, sat with the newborn babies in the corridor, waiting hopefully for abed to fall empty and to lay the babies in cradles. My daughter delivered at 3pm and she has not yet been given a bed, a middle-aged woman told TOI pointing to her daughter sitting on a concrete bench along with relatives of other patients. Another mother who had delivered three days ago was sitting in a cubicle outside one of the wards along with three other women holding babies. We are hoping to get a bed soon, one of them said. GMC medical superintendent, Rajan Kunkolienkar conceded that problems had arisen due to over admission of patients to the obstetrics and gynaecology ward. This happens once in four or six months. This is because we cannot refuse admissions as people come to the hospital from all over Goa and even border areas such as Karwar and Sawantwadi, he said. The 160-bed capacity is not enough and the pressure on the GMC infrastructure increases as expecting mothers bypass district hospitals and primary health care centres and come directly to GMC, he added. A delivery cannot wait nor can we refuse them admissions,said Kunkolienkar, adding that the problem will be tackled. We are trying to make adjustments to accommodate everybody, he said.
