Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and MLA Babush Monserrate have taken us for a ride by falsely promising us that at the Old Ribandar Hospital, a 30 bedded facility with a 24x7 Casualty cum Trauma unit equipped with all the required facilities would be set up and expanded in stages to be a fully-fledged hospital. The Old Ribandar Hospital premises have been given away to a Tamil Nadu based company to set up Siddha Clinical Research Unit under the Ayush Ministry. Our Old Ribandar Hospital was Asia’s first medical school with a very glorious history and this priceless heritage structure needed to be preserved by restoring the premises as a full-fledged hospital. Even in his manifesto at the Assembly elections held this year Babush Monserrate had promised full fledged medical facilities at the Ribandar Hospital but as expected has reneged on what was assured. What do his three Councillors who had blindly vouched for their maestro’s words have now to say since our Ribandar Hospital has been doled away? Our health and well-being are our number one priority and nothing else is more important.
