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CANACONA
Health Minister Vishwajit Rane will inaugurate the state’s first Emergency Care Centre (ECC) at the Community Health Centre (CHC) on Friday.
Also expected at the event is Canacona MLA Isidore Fernandes. This will be the MLA’s first visit to his constituency since May 10 after he had taken ill for a kidney-related ailment.
“Since becoming MLA, Fernandes has been constantly following up with the government to set up emergency services at the CHC, as the nearest availability of such services are about 40 km away in Margao,” said Congress Block President Elvis Fernandes, adding, “When he came to know that the government had plans to set up ECC as a pilot project in the state, he was in constant touch with Health Minister Vishwajit Rane to introduce the pilot project at the Canacona CHC.”
“Now, Canconkars in need of health and accident emergency services can be treated in the taluka itself,” Elvis Fernandes added.
Welcoming the government’s decision to introduce the pilot health project in Canacona, senior citizen and social worker Natividade De Sa said, “Emergency health services are the need of the hour as several emergency cases taking place in Canacona are lost by the time the patient reaches Margao.
The ECC is a proud moment for residents of Canacona
taluka.”
BJP block spokesman Bhushan Prabhugaonkar also welcomed the ECC at the Canacona CHC. “Thanks to the BJP government, Chief Minister Parrikar and Health Minister Rane for considering Canacona CHC for the pilot project,” said Prabhugaonkar.
Meanwhile, Isidore Fernandes who has been battling a serious ailment since May 10 and had been recovering at his residence in St Inez, Panaji, had not visited Canacona constituency for two months. During his period of recuperation, the MLA had been meeting his constituents in Panaji.
Claiming to have recovered from illness, Isidore Fernandes said he had filed a number of questions for the upcoming assembly and would be an active participant in the monsoon assembly
session.
