Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: District-level committees have been established by the state government to handle medical professionals’ complaints regarding violence.
District collectors will serve as the chairperson of the North and South Goa district committees, which were established by Secretary of Health Dr. Pooja Madkaikar in a notification.
The notification said, “The Government is pleased to establish committees for the North Goa and South Goa districts to address grievances in cases of loss or damage to the property of Medicare service institutions, or in cases of violence or incitement of violence against Medicare service personnel.”
The Under Secretary of Health, the Director of Prosecution, the Director of Health Services, the Dean of Goa Medical College, and the Medical Superintendents of the North and South Goa district hospitals make up the seven-member body.
As directed by the Supreme Court, Goa was the first State to establish a task force committee devoted to medical professional safety in the wake of the August rape-murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata. The dean of Goa Medical College and Hospital is in charge of the task team.
Under the direction of the Secretary of Health, the government established a 15-member Advisory Committee to provide guidance to the authority in carrying out its duties pertaining to the transplantation of human organs and tissues. The committee’s term will be two years.
According to the notification, “the Government is pleased to constitute the Advisory Committee to aid and advise the Appropriate Authority to discharge its functions, for a period of two years from the date of issue of the notification, in accordance with Section 13 A of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994, read with Rule 30 of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Rules, 2014.”
