With Dr J.N. Jindal's appointment as Dean of the Goa Medical College we can confidently predict a speedy recovery in the health of Goa Medical College(GMC). His predecessors have been well-meaning doctors but in a big way political interference in the day to day administration of GMC has over the years contributed to its current critical state.
Dr Jindal, a renowned neuro-surgeon himself, has been in Goa long enough and by now he has scanned and mastered the mind set of Goa's politicians. We hope that Dr Jindal has the nerves not to succumb to any undue political interference. Projects like the Dona Paula Convention Centre and the Monorail can wait. Let us get our priorities right and salvage the GMC, which like the River Princess remains grounded out of sheer neglect. The infrastructure at GMC has to improve. It is a disgrace if operations have to be cancelled due to erratic power and water supply to the hospital. Goa Medical College is not a veterinary hospital. The hospital has to be safeguarded from stray dogs, cattle, cockroaches and mosquitoes. Every head of the department should be made overall responsible and accountable for the state of his unit. The GMC needs to give priority attention to set right its entry point (casualty) where the patient steps in and the exit point (ICU) from where, in most cases, the patient currently moves on to the morgue. The casualty and the ICU need more nurses and doctors who care and equipment that works. While in trauma, time is the essence and a patient cannot be made to languish for hours waiting for treatment. Be it at the casualty or ICU. GMC should aim at providing all the super specialty facilities so that patients should no longer have to travel to Belgaum, Bangalore and Mumbai for medical care that should be provided at Bambolim. With Dr Jindal's efforts GMC will move out of its intensive critical state of chaos and mismanagement. The new Dean is soft spoken yet a firm administrator and has all that it takes to administer the right dose to ensure the ailing GMC is set on the road to full recovery. Serving in the medical field was supposed to be a mission with a passion. Unfortunately like the legal profession the medical arena has too become a business venture with one goal. Vitamin 'M' all the way. But when one has to cough up at times up to 40 lakhs for a medical seat by way of capitation fee, what can one say. Aires Rodrigues ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/