Vasco: Despite switching to a new place three years ago, the sub-district hospital in Chicalim was not equipped to start the operating theater.
Although hospitals have recently been given equipment worth RS 7 lakh in corporate social responsibility (CSR), it does not have the necessary skills and labor.
The source said that the old Chicalim hospital was used to carry out small operations.
But since it has shifted to a new structure that appointed him as a sub-district hospital, he did not have equipment or expertise to start the operating theater.
In fact, many politicians have assured that it will make arrangements to provide better health facilities in hospitals for people of three constituencies – Mormugao, Vasco and Chicalim.
The source told TII that hospitals need a surgeon, anesthesia experts, some nurses and multi-tasking staff.
The cave infrastructure development company has been directed to complete certain civil works such as the drainage system so that hospitals can start their operating theater.
The hospital now plans to start with small operations such as family planning and cesarean delivery if they get expertise.
They have been told by the Directorate of Health Services that the necessary expertise will be given an alternative basis even if not all the time.
Parshuram Sonurlasekar from the ‘Goa First’ NGO said that, “When we have a large hospital built at the cost of taxpayers, why are the Vasco people forced to go to a distant place for surgery? Families must travel, make settings before shifting the patient To remote places, repeatedly visiting the OPD Hospital where the operation is done, etc., when the government can easily make the doctor available here.
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