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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Health Minister Vishwjit Rane informed that Goa Medical College (GMC) will inaugurate a control hub/command centre set up under the Centre of Excellence for Department of Paediatrics, which will monitor and consult virtually the paediatric ICU patients admitted in paediatric ICU of GMC as well as in district hospitals of Goa. “Goa Medical College shall shortly inaugurate control hub/command centre set up under Centre of Excellence for Department of Paediatrics procure under ERCP-II which is a 100% centrally funded scheme. This control hub shall monitor and consult virtually the paediatric ICU patients admitted in paediatric ICU of…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Minister for Women and Child Development Vishwajit Rane said that strict action will be initiated against people abusing babies and small children for the sake of begging activities through police. “Strict action will be initiated against the people who are abusing babies and small children for the sake of begging activities through police,” said Rane He further said that the Department, Child Welfare Committee North and South Goa, and other stakeholders conducted rescue operations at various places in the state and from June 22 till date, 08 Children have been found while begging and rescued. “Out of…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Residents of Vasco are worried over the tap water contamination of a restaurant from Vasco. The restaurant owner has been ordered to make alternate water arrangements in his restaurant by the Urban Health Centre Vasco. There is a likely disaster regarding the health of the citizens in the making in Vasco town. As per the available information, a letter addressed to the Chief Officer by the health officer of Urban Health Centre Vasco dated July 18, a restaurant from Vasco near F.L.Gomes road, has come under the scanner of the Health services department. As per the letter,…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai allege a mega scam in the Goa Broadband Network, an ambitious project of the Goa government. Sardesai said, “This is a mega scam. I am sure the Minister knows this scam in and out.” Substantiating his claim, Sardesai said the GBBN contract with United Telecom Ltd expired in July 2019 and for 10 years, the quality of the internet provided by M/s UTS through their network was unreliable. “Before the expiry, the government should have been looking for a new vendor. Instead, in 2019, the contract was extended by one year,” he said.…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Ulhas Thanekar was elected as President of the Mormugao Port & Workers’ Union. The post of the President of the MPRW union was vacant for the last 14 months. In the executive meeting, which was held on 14/07/2022, Ulhas Thanekar was elected as President of Mormugao Port & Railway Workers’ Union (MPRW) in the presence of P.M. Mohammed Haneef, President, All India Port & Dock Workers’ Federation. The post was vacant for 14 months, consequent to the sad demise of Late Com. Leonardo Rodrigues. Since the port is facing challenges of being privatized and other major issues,…

Goemkarponn desk MORMUGAO: A minor girl was found hanging on a tree with the dupatta on a new road behind the Mormugao Port Authority (MPA) administrative building on Wednesday afternoon. In yet another shocking incident which surfaced on Wednesday, a minor girl(13) who was a school student reportedly took a drastic step of committing suicide by hanging from a tree in Sada on Wednesday. As per the information available from the Police sources, the minor girl was studying in a school at Headland Sada. Mormugao police have identified the identity of a deceased minor girl. Sources further added that the…

AERIAL VIEW What is shocking is the new extra energetic Town and Country Planning Minister Vishwajit Rane crossed all his limits and put all his strength into exposing Opposition leader Michael Lobo’s illegalities in the Outline Development Plans and his businesses. All that is fine; illegalities by anyone, if any, cannot be tolerated. But Vishwajit went an extra mile to see that he shut down Lobo’s restaurant Pisco by the beach in Anjuna on some flimsy grounds. He used entire FDA machinery to get the restaurant shut, only to get a stick from High Court. He went on to say…