PORVORIM, March 24 -- Opposition Leader Yuri Alemao said that both the North and South Goa District hospitals should be named as Primary Health Centres, since there are no ICUs, specialized doctors and accident patients have to rushed to Goa Medical College.

There were 1,80,256 referrals to GMC, 15,842 accidents and 900 people have died in five year, Yuri Alemao stated during question hour on the first day of the 9th Assembly session on Monday March 24, 2025.

"In the South Goa district hospital there is not MRI, no functional ICU. Today the district hospitals are in a sorry state. They should be called Primary Health Centre," Yuri told Health Minister Vishwajit Rane.

Rane shot back saying we have overshot the IPHS manual. It is not eas...