Recently, when I visited the OPD at GMC, Bambolim, I heard a nurse demanding that a patients relative keep his watch as bond for taking a wheel chair. Meaning that the relative could return the wheel chair and thus redeem his watch. On making a few enquires, I learnt that not only watches, but driving licenses, gold chains, and other valuables are accepted as deposit for wheel chairs.
I cannot for the life of me imagine any one taking a wheel chair, loading it into a vehicle and carting it away - not when GMC is bristling with security guards and servants who seem to be idling away their time. I understand the nurses concern for getting back the wheel chair allotted to their department as they are accountable. But since every wheel chair is labelled with the ward number, if a wheel chair is left out of place, it should be immediately returned to the correct place. Like at airports, a person taking a trolley can move anywhere within the precincts of the airport and just leave it there. There ought to be someone to collect the wheel chairs and return them to their proper places or the wheel chairs could have electronic tagging chips installed to make the task of locating them. Now that GMC has taken the positive step of appointing Ecoclean to do clean up operations at GMC, this could be an additional function allocated to them. (Additional payment? But naturally) -- Tony de Sa Ph: +91 832 2470148 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M: +91 9975 162 897 ----------------------------------------------------------- Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. - Jack Nicklaus ------------------------------------------------------------
