FRIDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 2026
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108 ambulance drivers can’t decide on hospitals

The health authorities are doing a commendable job with their 108 ambulance services, but it would be good if the drivers and paramedics are instructed to take the patients to the hospital of their choice rather than insisting on going only to government hospitals, where sometimes the services are substandard. A patient having severe chest pain should be rushed to the nearest super-specialty facility as the first hour (golden hour) is the most important under such circumstances and is a situation between life and death. Hopefully, the health authorities will do the needful and oblige.


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Focus on making Goa’s villages self-reliant

MELVILLE X D’SOUZA, Mumbai
Published Apr 21, 2022, 12:02 AM IST
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Apropos to ‘Focus on villages first to full develop State: CM’ (The Goan Everyday April 20, 2022), we need to focus on making our villages self-reliant, if we are to see a fully developed Goa. The Chief Minister has driven home the point very clearly. In fact, this holds true for all states in the country, not just for Goa. Developing villages/rural areas would stop the migration of people into cities. If we are seeing the mushrooming slums in the metro cities, it is because…

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