Panaji: While all patient departments (OPD) have moved to the new South Goa District Hospital to want a room at the old Hosptigio Hospital, the victim Ward continues to function there along with surgical branches.
With CT scans assigned to new facilities, the movement of surgery and the victim department to the new hospital is expected to occur immediately.
Drug drugs, followed by gynecology who received the highest footsteps were the first shifted to a new hospital after the last Covid-19 patient was discharged on October 12.
The spacious South South Goa District Hospital was only for a handful of Covid-19 patients while non-Covid-19 patients struggled with acute deficiencies in the old Hospicio Hospital with the more people who came out to access medical care.
However, the South Goa District Hospital continues to assess Covid-19 patients with a separate victim bay area for them, but no Covid-19 patients are accepted at this facility.
“They come for X-Rays, to check their oxygen saturation level, collect a home isolation kit and receive medicine,” said the hospital staff.
Anti-retroviral (art) therapy for HIV patients will continue in an old hospital where the palliative care center will be arranged along with the Ayush treatment clinic.
The initial district intervention center that functions from hospital T B in Monte will be transferred to the old Hospicio Hospital.
Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) has not prepared a parking area for patients behind excessive hospitals with vegetation and vehicle patients are allowed to park outside the gate.
“Parking staff in the basement.
There is no place for other people parking.
If we allow them inside, they will start blocking ambulance and oxygen trucks,” said the hospital staff.
GSIDC will also build bus-bays outside the hospital, but it is expected to delay work until the Department of Public Works (PWD) explores the road in front of the hospital to put a sewerage line, which is placed outside the south.
Recent Goa Collectorate.
If bus-bay is built first, there is concern that PWD will begin digging digging a sewerage line, which leads to waste taxpayers.