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The health minister said Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will hold a detailed presentation about the scheme on how and where it can be improved. “It is not modify but how to improve the health insurance scheme so that maximum areas are covered to give relief to patients,” he said.
It may be recalled Laxmikant Parsekar-led BJP government had launched Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana, the first of its kind universal health insurance scheme in the country, in Goa in 2016. Urban Development Minister Francis D’Souza was the health minister then.
In 2011, the then Congress-led coalition under Vishwajit Rane as the health minister had also launched a similar health insurance scheme that provided a cover of Rs 60,000 for a family of five every year but the scheme never took off amidst allegation of corruption levelled against Rane by the then opposition.
On the monkey fever, the health minister said that the disease was under control and that he was personally monitoring the situation.
“It’s (monkey fever) all under control and I am monitoring it on a regular basis. We are creating sufficient awareness and we are also keeping tab on the vaccinations,” he said. He also said that there was sufficient stock of oil that was required to be given to the villages, which have been identified as prone to the disease. Rane further said that the health department will take aggressive steps to bring malaria under control in State.
“Since Candolim is highly prone to vector borne diseases due to high incidence of construction activities in the area we will double our efforts to achieve our target and bring malaria under control,” he said.
More doctors to be recruited
MAPUSA: Vishwajeet Rane assured that govt would soon fill up vacancies and take steps to overcome shortage of doctors in various hospitals and primary health centres in the State.
“Promotions have been held up for a long time in the health department. At many places doctor’s posts have lapsed,” Rane said.
He said the Manohar Parrikar-led coalition government was aware of the shortage of staff and that is why the ban was first removed for recruitment of teaching staff and doctors.
“The chief minister has asked me to prepare a comprehensive proposal so that there should not be any shortfall of doctors for treatment of patients,” the health minister said.
