Panaji / Oct. 3, 2004 webindia123.com
As the festival season is about to set in, Goa is abuzz with lots of activities and nightlife soon catching up in the city. The emerald land of beaches, wine and swaying palms provide an ideal setting for nightlife. After sunbathing the whole day at the beaches, tourists like spending their nights at bars sipping beer. Shaking a leg or two, enjoying the hip-hop music, the tourists say they enjoy the Goan ambience. "It is very green and the water is very warm and beer tastes good. This is my first 24 hours in India, Goa and it is very beautiful," Nick, a tourist from Ireland.
Larry, a foreigner enjoying holidays in Goa, said that the state's hospitality simply floored him. Brian, a tourist from Australia also agreed with Larry. "The quality of service that we have experience in the days we have been here is extraordinary," Brian. With almost every third house, having a bar-cum-restaurant, Goa provides an exciting tourist destination.
For Shashi, hailing from Delhi, the nightlife of Goa is enchanting especially the discotheques. For him the nightlife of Goa is much better than metros like Mumbai and Delhi. "Night life is awesome. Most often the people go to beaches, but they should also enjoy the nightlife of Goa, which is great compared to Delhi and Mumbai," she said.(ANI)
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Oct. 11 issue - For Gregory Bates a holiday on the sunny beaches of Goa ended abruptly�in the hospital. The 54-year-old British weightlifter checked into the Wockhardt Heart Hospital in Bangalore in July with chest pains. His first impulse was to head back to Britain for bypass surgery, but after consulting with his family doctor back home, he opted instead to stay put. Now he's glad he did. "The medical service was fantastic," he says.
The trend is driven in part by long waiting lists and high costs in countries like Britain and Canada. Like software outsourcing firms, Indian hospitals offer quality at Third World prices. The number of foreign patients seeking treatment in India�now 100,000�is growing by 12 percent to 15 percent a year, says the Indian Healthcare Federation.
To accommodate them, Wockhardt has devised a "patient-centric" e-health system designed for convenience. Patients can make payments from anywhere in the world. And the hospital posts messages and photographs of convalescing patients on its Web site for relatives to see (with a user ID and password). Narayana Hrudalaya, a heart hospital in Bangalore, has linked 19 coronary-care units throughout India and also to a clinic in Kuala Lumpur, a children's cardiac facility in Mauritius and a medical school in Hanover, Germany. Doctors at the hospital consult with patients in these international centers, where they can view ECG, X-ray and even angiograms through ISDN lines and give advice. Someday a few advances in robotic surgery may complete the outsourcing of health care.
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Cong accepted Acharya�s candidature following Oppn consensus: Luizinho
NT News Service
Margao Oct 2: The Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president, Mr Luizinho Faleiro said that the Congress party had accepted Mr Jagdish Acharya as its candidate following a consensus between all Opposition parties.
Mr Faleiro said the Congress party was grateful to all the Opposition parties for uniting under its banner and creating a historic one-to-one fight in Poinguinim.He also said that party�s first choice would have been a candidate belonging to the scheduled tribes. Mr Faleiro was speaking at a gathering in Gaodongrim in Poinguinim. He disclosed that the party�s convenor for Poinguinim constituency be-election, Mr Sanjay Bandekar was given instructions to this effect when he toured the constituency to evolve a consensus on the choice of the Congress candidate.
Citing the case of former the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, Mr Ramesh Tawadker, Mr Faleiro condemned the BJP for using, abusing and finally disposing the scheduled tribes (STs). He alleged that the BJP�s long-term game plan was to merge the portions of Gaodongrim and Khotigao in proposed Sanguem constituency so as to make the STs politically irrelevant.
As against the BJP�s step-motherly treatment to the STs, Mr Faleiro said that Congress had demanded with the chairman of Delimitation Commission, Mr Justice Kuldip Singh, a special census so that due representation could be given to the STs in the state. He said that the Congress representation to the Commission specifically spoke of reservation for the STs.
The South Goa member of the Parliament, Mr Churchill Alemao said that the by-election in Poinguinim would prove that people�s power was bigger than the combined strength of money and muscle power. He said that the voters have an opportunity to prove that votes are not commodities that can be purchased in the market.
Others who spoke on the occasion included the Cuncolim MLA, Mr Joaquim Alemao, the Gaodongrim sarpanch, Mr Barkelo Velip and others. (Navhind Times)
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Doctors� strike on Monday over Sanguem PHC rampage
NT Staff Reporter
Panaji Oct 2: Private doctors in the state have decided to launch a day-long statewide strike on October 4, apart from mass casual leave by government doctors �without hampering the essential medical services�, to protest against the failure of the government in arresting the culprits involved in a recent incident at the Sanguem primary health centre.
It would be recalled that a mob of the Sanguem villagers had stormed into the local health centre and destroyed the property, after the doctor and the nurse of the PHC allegedly refused to provide adequate medical treatment to a local injured youth, resulting in his death.
Addressing a press conference today in the city, the president of Goa state of the Indian Medical Association, Dr Anil Gaunekar said the state-wide strike, which would begin at the Azad Maidan, will include presentation of a related memorandum to the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Parrikar and the Health Minister, Dr Suresh Amonkar.
�The memorandum would appeal to the state government to arrest the culprits involved in the incident and take necessary action against them as per law, as well as provision of adequate security to medical and para-medical fraternity,� he added.
Dr Gaunekar said the Goa Dental Association as well as the Goa Nursing Association had extended their support to the statewide strike.
�The particular incident involved a violent mob attacking and manhandling the doctor, abusing him in filthy language and damaging the private property, for no fault of the doctor, in spite of the fact that he discharged his duties up to the requirement under the available facilities,� Dr Gaunekar observed.
The IMA state president also lamented that the doctor at the Sanguem PHC had to face humiliation due to newspaper comments affecting adversely his family members specially the children. �If this is the fate of a sincere doctor then there will be no option left for the doctors practising in villages, but to leave the area of their work,� he said, pointing out that such incidents would result in the IMA�s Aao Gaon Chalen campaign which exhorts doctors to visit rural areas for providing medical services.
�The IMA headquarters has been intimated about this incident,� he said.
The former secretary of the Goa state IMA, Dr Shekhar Salkar said the government cannot provide specialist doctors, such as neurologists, at every health centre in villages, and the need for the patients to be shifted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim, for receiving such advance treatments must not be overlooked.
The epidemiologist at the directorate of health services, Dr Rajendra Tamba, who represented the Goa Government Doctors� Association, said that this was one of many such incidents that had taken place in Goa in the past, and therefore the issue about the safety of doctors and para-medical staff had become important.
The general secretary of the Goa state IMA, Dr Purnima Usgaonker said the Association and other doctors have unanimously decided to fight against injustice in this particular case, and for prevention of such cases in general, in the future. (Navhind Times)
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