PANAJI: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Sunday announced that all Outpatient Departments (OPDs) at Primary Health Centers, Community Health Centers and Urban Health Centers across the state will resume functioning from May 5 onwards. The OPDs at Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim will also resume functioning subject to certain stringent conditions.
He further disclosed that the Health Department has also decided to allow the resumption of OPDs at GMC. “GMC will resume with all protocols and 50 per cent load factor. All the doctors and health workers will be provided with protective gears and N95 masks in the OPD. Strict social distancing to be
followed and all patients and relatives to compulsorily wear a mask,” said the Health Minister in a tweet.
Meanwhile, Rane on Sunday interacted with the security guards. Frontline health workers and the staff of Gmc and thanked them for their constant assistance and support during the Covid-19 outbreak.
