Dry taps hit kidney patients
Preetu Nair, TNN
PANAJI: With taps running dry from Wednesday evening at the new 450-bed block of the Goa Medical College and Hospital, patients, especially those
requiring dialysis, have been put to major hardship.
The block houses the medicine, urology, neurology, paediatrics, dermatology and VD, nephrology and surgical gasteroentology wards and the ICCU, CCU, MICU.
On Thursday, several renal failure patients in need of dialysis were seen waiting for their appointments that never materialised, even as staff at the kidney unit were calling up other patients to cancel afternoon appointments.
Doctors were forced to send back patients with dialysis appointments, directing those with emergency needs to private hospitals. While those who could afford did go to private clinics, those who weren’t able to shell out the Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000 per session have been returning to the GMC in desperation.
GMC medical superintendent Dr Rajan Kunkolienkar admitted the problem existed and said, “While water requirement at GMC has increased, quantity of water supplied has not. Our water requirement is about 1000 cubic mts and we have asked for more water.”
PWD minister Churchill Alemao, however, said the shortage was due to internal distribution. “There is a water shortage in the new GMC ward and I have sent my men to sort out the problem. It is more of an internal problem of GMC administration.”
An official from Frischmann Prabhu (I) Pvt Ltd, project management consultant for the block, though blamed PWD for the problem. He said, “Though the capacity of the tank at GMC is about 1200 cubic mts, only 300 cubic mts water is filled daily. The new ward alone requires 120 to 130 cubic mts water daily.”
GMC staff say that this is not a new problem. “Today is no exception. For the last 15 days there has been no water in the wards in the evening. The toilets stink and from Wednesday evening, it has been really bad. There is no water in the bathroom or even water to drink,” said a housekeeping staff at GMC.
Patients are being forced to purchase packaged water to drink as well as for washing. “We bought 5-6 water bottles in the morning as there is no water to drink or wash,” said a woman whose son is admitted in the medicine ward with diabetes
1 May 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Russian couple asks for dead son's remains
Russian couple asks for dead son's remains
Preetu Nair, TNN
PANAJI: Almost one and half years after a boy went missing in Goa, now his Russian parents are trying to get the skull and other remains of their
22-year-old for burial in their homeland Russia.
Anton Prosnyakov had gone missing in November 2007. His last call to his parents was from Chapora in Goa on November 3, 2007. "With the DNA tests and super imposition tests confirming that the decomposed body of a man found in the bushes at Vagator was of their son, the parents have now asked for the remains of their son for burial," said police sources.
The police added, "We have sent a request for the skull from the forensic laboratory in Punjab where it was sent for superimposition. The rest of his body parts have been disposed off."
Confirming this, advocate of the consul general of the Russian federation in Goa, Vikram Varma said, "This is a case of homicide. Even as police investigation continues, the remains of the boy would need to be repatriated for burial according to the wishes of the family."
Anton had arrived in New Delhi from Russia on August 25, 2007, on a tourist visa along with his girlfriend Marina Pulina, 22. They travelled to Srinagar, Leh, Mumbai and ultimately arrived in Goa in October. They initially stayed at Vagator and then moved to Chapora. With no news from their son for a long time, Anton's parents complained to the foreign affairs ministry of the Russian federation that their son had been missing since November 2007.
Sources said that on receiving a letter from the Russian consul, the Goa police asked for the boy's photograph showing his frontal face profile as police suspected that the two unknown bodies found in the bushes at White rock shack, Vagator, could be of Anton and his girlfriend. This doubt was confirmed when a witness, Misrilal, on seeing Anton's photo, told the cops that he had seen the couple living in a tent at White rock. Moreover, the yellowish red beaded plastic necklace which was found with the skeletal remains in the autopsy and is preserved by the police, was found to be similar to the necklace seen in the photograph of the couple.
Later, the DNA tests of the decomposed body and the parents also confirmed that it is the body of their missing son. The identification using the superimposition technique also confirmed that it was the Russian couple.
30 Apr 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition
Preetu Nair, TNN
PANAJI: Almost one and half years after a boy went missing in Goa, now his Russian parents are trying to get the skull and other remains of their
22-year-old for burial in their homeland Russia.
Anton Prosnyakov had gone missing in November 2007. His last call to his parents was from Chapora in Goa on November 3, 2007. "With the DNA tests and super imposition tests confirming that the decomposed body of a man found in the bushes at Vagator was of their son, the parents have now asked for the remains of their son for burial," said police sources.
The police added, "We have sent a request for the skull from the forensic laboratory in Punjab where it was sent for superimposition. The rest of his body parts have been disposed off."
Confirming this, advocate of the consul general of the Russian federation in Goa, Vikram Varma said, "This is a case of homicide. Even as police investigation continues, the remains of the boy would need to be repatriated for burial according to the wishes of the family."
Anton had arrived in New Delhi from Russia on August 25, 2007, on a tourist visa along with his girlfriend Marina Pulina, 22. They travelled to Srinagar, Leh, Mumbai and ultimately arrived in Goa in October. They initially stayed at Vagator and then moved to Chapora. With no news from their son for a long time, Anton's parents complained to the foreign affairs ministry of the Russian federation that their son had been missing since November 2007.
Sources said that on receiving a letter from the Russian consul, the Goa police asked for the boy's photograph showing his frontal face profile as police suspected that the two unknown bodies found in the bushes at White rock shack, Vagator, could be of Anton and his girlfriend. This doubt was confirmed when a witness, Misrilal, on seeing Anton's photo, told the cops that he had seen the couple living in a tent at White rock. Moreover, the yellowish red beaded plastic necklace which was found with the skeletal remains in the autopsy and is preserved by the police, was found to be similar to the necklace seen in the photograph of the couple.
Later, the DNA tests of the decomposed body and the parents also confirmed that it is the body of their missing son. The identification using the superimposition technique also confirmed that it was the Russian couple.
30 Apr 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition
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