Govt planning relief for rural heart patients

Goa’s health department is building a network of 108 ambulance, village level health centers and the district hospitals to immediately treat the heart patient and save his or her life.

This would perhaps be the first service of this kind in the country.

Health minister Vishwajeet Rane said government would sign MoU with Stamy India to handle cardiac emergencies.

The cardiac patients would now get primary treatment in the 108 ambulance and later at primary and community health centres rather than rushing them to the district hospitals or the GMC hospital.

Vishwajeet is also planning to streamline and upgrade the pathology laboratory at the Goa Medical College hospital with tests of tissues and all the biopsies of cancer patients.