New Hospicio hospital to be ready by next year: minister
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…
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No parking fees from May 1: CCP
Panaji, Goa: The Corporation of the City of Panaji has urged people not to pay parking fees to the contractor in the city limits from May 1 as the contract of collecting parking fees which was awarded to Straight Deal Services company, will be expiring on May 30, that is on Sunday. It is said that the…
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Vishwajit Rane turns as hope for 15-year-old girl
It was usual inspection for health minister Vishwajit Rane at Goa medical college and hospital, but was emotionally shocked when 15-year-old girl pleaded to him to save her life. The minister who was inspecting the functioning of dialysis unit in GMCH was surprised to see 15-year-old from Chorao whom he had felicitated in dance competition, begging to save her life. The…
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ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND JOBS
Mallan Kurian Goa: To become economically competitive, Goa must undertake civic and police reform to an appreciable degree. Without civic reform, infrastructure and society come apart at the seams leading to civil unrest and unemployment, and without police reform to control the unemployed mobs, the cycle of damnation and recession continues. A hundred thousand new jobs in Goa! Too hard to…
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Vishwajit Rane gets stunned in GMCH welcomed by dogs in casualty
Health minister Vishwajit Rane was stunned and shocked when he found stray dogs having freely moving in the casualty where emergency patients are treated at Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim. He was the first health minister to visit GMCH in last five years as the condition of this hospital is deteriorating every passing day. After finding various patients complaining…
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Vishwajit Rane to create awareness on monkey fever
Goa health department has pressed an emergency button asking all the officials to leave no stone unturned for creating awareness on monkey fever disease. Health minister Vishwajit Rane chaired a meeting of higher officials in Panaji today during which he asked them to hit the ground and create awareness on taking the preventive doses. Rane has himself decided to visit the…
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Tax payers of Margao dissatisfied over sanitation fees; May move to court
A delegation of tax payers of Margao gave an indication to the civic body that they will move to the higher authorities including the court. The move came a week after they got the Margao Municipal Council to stop the implementation of sanitation fees. The delegation was led by former MMC chairperson Savio Coutinho, Laurel Abranches, Jose Marie Miranda and…
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AAP corners pollution control board officials over Sonshi issue
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday gheroad the officials of Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) over delay in initiating action against the mining firms responsible for air pollution in Sonshi village. The party demanded immediate suspension of consent to operate granted to all seven leases operational in the vicinity of the village. The party is contemplating filing contempt petition…
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Monkey fever takes its first toll in Goa
Monkey fever which is also known as kyasanur forest disease took the first toll of this year. Gulabi Gawas, a 45-year-old, woman from Keri, Sattari died in Goa medical college and hospital due to KFD. Gulabi Gawas who was being treated at Goa medical college and hospital (GMCH) died yesterday. The woman was admitted in GMCH five days back as she…
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Don’t succumbs to pressures: Vishwajit Rane tells medical officers
State health minister Vishwajit Rane today appealed all the government doctors “not to succumb to the pressures asking false medical certificates however influential the person who is demanding it be.” In his first ever interaction with the medical officers from across all the state run hospitals and medical facilities, Rane cautioned them against falling for any kind of pressures which…
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