Goa former Health Minister Vishwajit Rane today appealed to state government to "sack" those nurses who refuse to tend to patients admitted in state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital.
"There are nurses who refuse to touch (nurse) patients. (Instead) they ask relatives to go down (go out of the hospital) and get a labourer to look after him (patient) by paying Rs 500," Rane claimed in the Legislative Assembly during discussion on state budget.
"They (nurses) say their job is only to administer medicine. Let me be on record of the House, we should sack those nurses. Their job is to look after the patients. People are dying there (in GMCH)," he said.
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Alleged that GMCH refers several patients to private hospitals when their condition worsens, the former minister urged the government to get done the hospital's medical audit.
"Of three hundred medical procedures listed in medical scheme, not more than 30-40 can be done in GMCH," he said, adding that nearly 30 to 40 per cent of medical procedures are never done in GMCH.
