Goa to enlist consultancy firm HSCC for state health projects

Goa is in the process of empanelling the Hospital Services Consultancy Corporation (HSCC) as the nodal agency for health related projects, health minister Vishwajit Rane said.
Rane said that the proposal to empanel HSCC in the state governments projects would be tabled before the state cabinet this month.
"We are in the process of empanelling the HSCC to implement our health related projects, which are currently being chalked out. The HSCC has a successful track and have implemented health projects of more than Rs 1 lakh crore," he said.
"They have under their umbrella almost all the projects of Prime Minister Swasthya Suraksha Yojana," he added.

Rane said that the facility of kidney transplant in state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital will re-start from January next year. This had been stopped for a few years now.
Rane said there are four cases already lined up for kidney ransplant and they would be carried out once the facility resumes.

The minister also said that the union government has already released the first installment of Rs 8.5 crore out of Rs 50 crore towards setting up the Regional Cancer Centre at Goa Medical College and Hospital.
"The project will be completed in 12 months from the date of commencement of construction of the building," he said.

Rane said that the state government will increase the staff strength of the GMCs oncology department.