The officials of the Goa Medical College are caught between the devil and the deep sea following the election code of conduct coming into force subsequent to announcement of parliamentary elections and they are unable to either purchase life saving drugs or enter into annual maintenance contract for smooth functioning of the machinery.
Though the Dean of the GMC, Dr V N Jindal, has written to the chief electoral officer to allow the college by relaxing the code of conduct on March 6, there has been no response from the office of the chief electoral officer so far. A reminder has also been sent on Friday seeking early response from the election authorities.
The dean informed the election authorities that the apex hospital was a life saving institution that caters to the people of the state in sickness and emergencies and that it had to do a lot of emergency purchases of life saving drugs/medicines and buy spare parts for hospital machinery and enter into annual maintenance contract for smooth functioning of machinery and equipment.
He has also informed that the GMC has to invite tender and quotations and issue orders but due to the code of conduct coming into force, the GMC has not been able to make any purchases of the medicines that are in short supply or issue tenders thus endangering the lives of the patients visiting and admitted to the hospital.
The sources in the GMC said that if the tenders are not floated in the near future, then the hospital would run out of essential life saving drugs and other items, which could endanger the lives of the people and lead to various other problems.
-NT
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