GOA: THIS DECEMBER ONWARDS, NON GOANS WILL HAVE TO PAY AT GMC, HOSPICIO, ASILO AND OTHER GOVERNMENT FACILITIES

Panaji (Goa) This goes as a real Goenkarponn. State Health department has decided to charge the non-Goans who are availing the benefits at Goa Medical College, Hospicio, Asilo, PHCs, CHCs and similar facilities.

State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane today moved a file to form five member committee headed by Additional Secretary (Health) which will work out the modalities to allow free services in the government run hospitals only for the people with Goa domicile.

“From December 01 this year onwards all the non Goans will have to pay nominal fee to avail the facilities in the State run hospitals like Goa Medical College, South Goa District Hospital (Hospicio), North Goa District Hospital (Azilo) and all the Primary, Community and Urban Health centres,” Rane said.

He said that the committee has to submit their recommendations over the pricing to the non-Goan domicile within next ten days. The minister said that the decision has been to taken to “ensure that Goans are getting a fair deal in these facilities.”

State run hospitals which are located across the State were also being used by the patients from neighbouring Konkan belt in Maharashtra and Karwar from Karnataka.

“Almost 40 per cent of the patients who were visiting the Goa medical college and other two district hospitals are not from Goa due to which the Goans have to face lot of inconvenience,” Rane said.

The minister said that “the people from outside Goa would not be denied the treatment but they will have to pay nominal fee to avail it.”

State government appointed committee comprising Additional Secretary (health), Medical Superintendent GMC, Dean of GMC, Director of Health and Under Secretary Health will have Rajananda Desai, Officer on special duty to Health Minister as the member secretary on it.

The minister said that the Goans who are having state government’s Deen Dayal Social Security Yojana card can produce it as their identity. “If they don’t have DDSSY card then they can produce any document like Voting Card to prove that they are domicile of Goa,” he added.