Goa re-starts Baby Screening Centre

The Health Ministry inaugurated the newborn baby screening facility in the state under the National Rural Health Mission. The mission of this service is to check for treatable metabolic disorders in babies.

Goa was the first state to start screening of newborn babies when Digambar Kamat led government was in power in the year 2008 but it was later discontinued in the year 2012 by BJP-led government.

But now on Monday, this service was restarted with better technology and with an aim to check for treatable metabolic disorders in babies.

'Nowadays the cases of disorder amongst children are on the rise and we should diagnose them on times' said Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane