Goa’s Health: Are we satisfied?

DATE: Sunday, 11 July 2010

TIME: 11:00 am (and at 9:00 pm on the same day)

PANELISTS:

Dr. Sunanda Amonkar (Associate Professor – GMC)

Mr Ashwin Furtado (Graduate, Health Care Management)

Ms Ayesha Gonsalves (Faculty, Marian Institute of Health Care Management)

Dr. Govind Kamat (OBG & Gynaecologist)

A one-hour panel discussion on the status of health care in Goa will feature in Straight-Talk hosted by Juino De Souza which will be telecast is on Sunday, 11 July at 11 am on HCN (Herald Cable Network). The discussion will address the people’s concern regarding:

• Facilities available to the people in Goa
• Efforts towards better health in Goa
• Areas for improvement in the health sector
• Role of the public and private sector towards betterment of health
• Preventive health ventures

There will be a repeat telecast of the programme on the same day at 9pm

The second event in the ‘War of Words’ series on 12th December, 2008, saw a presentation and panel discussion on ‘Long Term Health Care’.  The students presented information and existing perspectives on Increasing Awareness, Funding & Insurance, Preventive Measures – Environment and Children’s Health, Long term  impact of chemicals, Mental health & care and Ethical Issues in long term health care.

The student panel discussed the data and perspectives presented in an endeavour to formulate a long term healthcare policy for Goa.

Dr. Vijay Naik, Consulting Physician, Manipal Hospital shared his views on the operational aspects of long-term healthcare and his feedback on the presentations and outcome of the panel discussion.