PANAJI
Health Minister Francis D’Souza said the government was contemplating setting up a fact-finding committee to look into the various issues that are plaguing the Goa Medical College.
Speaking to The Goan, D’Souza said that the issue came up in view of the various complaints about the hospital that kept cropping up.
“A decision has not been taken yet. We are considering setting up an independent fact-finding committee not staffed by existing officials of the GMC,” D’Souza said.
He, however, said that the problems facing the hospital were not as big as they are being made out. “In the Assembly much was said about the state of the morgue, when I went to inspect it myself, I found it to be fully functional,” D’Souza said adding that the issue was being blown out of proportion because it is election year.
“We will take a decision on Monday,” D’Souza said.
The Goa Medical College has been facing several issues the most crucial being that of severe water shortage.
Durgadas Kamat of Generation Next NGO said that the hospital also lacks adequate bed facilities and has limited arrangements in the ICU. The patients are made to sleep on the floor, while critical patients are kept waiting in general wards, he claimed.
He said ventilators too were non-functional and that the doctors and staffers at the hospital were least bothered about patients. The NGO had urged the Chief Minister to conduct a surprise visit to the hospital and take stock of the situation.
