State health minister Vishwajit Rane has said that the new building of hospicio hospital will be commissioned by early next year providing better facilities for the people of South Goa.

Rane accompanied by Agriculture Minister Vijai Sardesai today inspected the construction of new building to house Hospicio hospital.

The minister was told by Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation officials that the building would be ready by December this year.

“If we consider a delay of another one or two months, the new building would be ready by early next year and we will be able to shift the facilities there,” the minister said.

He said that the building will be equipped with all the facilities which will make the commissioning more quicker.

Meanwhile, State government has decided to ask the district collectors to initiate proceedings to dispose off unclaimed dead bodies, which are occupying space in the morgues.

“The health department will write to both the district collectors urging them to ask concerned police stations to dispose off the bodies which are unclaimed,” Rane told reporters after inspecting the state-run morgue in south Goa.

The minister today conducted inspection of district hospital in Margao to oversee the facilities there. During the inspection of morgue, the minister was told that all the units in morgue were full with unclaimed bodies.

“All the nine units were occupied with the bodies which are sent by police. The police have not disposed these bodies off,” Rane said.

He said the police were irregular in forwarding the applications to the district administration to dispose off the bodies.

The bodies which are found unclaimed are kept in state run morgues – at Goa Medical College and Hospital and another at district hospital in Margao – in absence of the relatives claiming for them.

Team TNV