Goans secure tourists’ health: will give free emergency medical treatment

NewsBharati    28-Dec-2017
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Panaji, December 28: The Goans have always welcomed their tourists with cheer and happiness, along with this they will now serve them medically too as it has now be declared that emergency medical procedures will remain free for outstation tourists.


Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar announced that outstation patients will continue to get free-of-cost emergency medical procedures in the state-run hospitals, although they will be charged nominal fees for other medical facilities.

The patients from outside Goa would be charged 20% of the fee as prescribed in the state's 'Deen Dayal Swastha Seva Yojana (DDSSY)' charged by 'C' category hospitals, which comes to a nominal amount.

Parrikar, who spoke after launching eight new ambulances, also said work on the regional cancer centre was expected to start soon and that the construction of a superspecialty block at the Goa Medical College was likely to commence in January 2018.

The step was taken to ensure that the locals are given priority in these hospitals as the state government is spending crores of rupees to maintain and upkeep these facilities.Nearly 30-40% of the patients on these hospitals arrive from outside the state, specially from Maharashtra and Karnataka. There is a need to provide treatment on priority to the locals