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GOA, India – A harrowing personal experience involving his father’s critical health scare decades ago became the driving force behind Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane’s commitment to overhauling the state’s medical infrastructure, particularly in emergency cardiac care.
Speaking recently at a health camp in Thivim, Minister Rane shared a poignant memory from the 1990s when his father, then Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane, suffered a heart attack. The elder Rane was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Goa Medical College (GMC), an experience that starkly revealed the inadequacies of the state’s premier health facility at the time.
Minister Rane vividly described the poorly equipped ICU, highlighting the lack of essential infrastructure necessary for critical care. He recounted a particularly distressing detail: finding a cat resting on the ICU bed next to his ailing father. This incident, he explained, deeply affected him and solidified his resolve. It was then that he vowed to dedicate himself to significantly improving Goa’s health services should he ever enter the political arena.
Years later, serving as the state’s Health Minister, Vishwajit Rane has demonstrably acted on that pledge. He emphasized the significant progress made, particularly in enhancing the capabilities of grassroots-level facilities. Today, he stated, every Primary Health Centre (PHC) and Community Health Centre (CHC) across Goa is equipped with professionals trained to perform essential, lifesaving procedures for patients experiencing heart attacks.
This transformation from witnessing dire conditions firsthand to implementing widespread improvements in critical care highlights Minister Rane’s sustained focus on strengthening Goa’s health sector, driven by a deeply personal motivation to ensure better medical outcomes for all Goans.
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