After a year long struggle, we have now been informed that a Ribandar Health Centre will see the light of the day on October 2 which is Gandhi Jayanti.
We had been promised that the health facilities at the Old Ribandar Hospital would start as 30 bedded unit with a 24X7 Casualty cum Trauma unit equipped with all the required facilities and that it would be expanded in stages to be a fully fledged Hospital. It is for the government to live up to its promise.
The promised Community Health Centre at the Old Ribandar hospital would benefit not only a densely populated Ribandar but also neighbouring residents of Chimbel, Merces, Old Goa and the Island of Divar.
We will have to keep our fingers crossed till October 2 to see what the government actually delivers.
