MARGAO
South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha on Saturday lamented that the doctors attached to the Curtorim Primary Health Centre use ambulances for transportation for want of vehicles.
Slamming Chief Minister Pramod Sawant for promising to upgrade the Curtorim PHC, Sardinha said the government should immediately place a vehicle at the disposal of the Curtorim PHC for the convenience of the health officials.
“It is sad to note that the doctors and staff of the Curtorim PHC use the ambulance to travel to the seven villages coming under the jurisdiction of the Health centre. Instead of scoring brownie points by saying that Curtorim has not seen progress and development, the CM should immediately sanction a vehicle to the PHC on priority”, he told the media on Saturday.
Sardinha said the BJP and the Chief Minister should stop indulging in politics over Sonsodo, saying the garbage dump falls in the jurisdiction of Fatorda constituency, but the brunt of pollution had to be faced by the constituents of Curtorim.
“I had acquired opposite Sonsodo for waste management and I lost the election by 94 votes in 1994 over the issue. But, I am a visionary who had anticipated the present crisis at Sonsodo and hence had acquired the land opposite the dump”, he said.
