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Hospicio building declared unsafe, but no action forthcoming

Friday’s incident at Hospicio brought to the fore the danger posed to patients and visitors to the government hospital as it’s now over two years since the building was declared unsafe and unfit for human habitation, but the three-storied building stands tall in the Hospicio complex till date.

MARGAO: 
In fact, Hospicio authorities pointed out that the top two floors of the building are lying vacant ever since the PWD had declared these floors unsafe. The ground floor of the building, however, is presently housing the casualty, while the female medicine is located on the first floor of the building.   
Authorities pointed out that the repairs to the building is firmly ruled out since the time the top two floors were declared unsafe. “There’s no question of carrying out repairs to the building since the building’s top two floors have been declared unsafe,” informed Hospicio Medical Superintendent Dr Aira Almeida.   
She told the Goan that the dialysis centre is located on one of the floors of the unsafe building, adding that the in-charge of the dialysis centre has been issued notices by the Hospicio hospital to vacate the premises at the earliest.  However, with no early sign of the commissioning of the district hospital under construction at Ambaji near the new Collectorate building, sources said the female medicine ward and the casualty continues to be housed in the unsafe building.  
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Hospicio iron railing crashes, woman hurt

GGEA writes to Health Minister expressing apprehension of risk to life of staff

the goan I network
Published Jun 24, 2017, 8:49 PM IST
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MARGAO  A 30-year-old woman from Ambaji was left injured after a piece of iron railing from the balcony of the second floor of Hospicio building came crashing down on her, Friday noon.  The victim Rizwana Khan had just come to the Hospicio to get her relative admitted in the hospital, when the railing piece came crashing down from the second floor of the building on her.  The victim’s head was swollen and the hospital authorities kept her under observation in…

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