Yesterday, on 10th February, 2020, two major events have taken place in Candolim, one at Dando side where there is an existing Health Centre, where the Candolim Panchayat is going to build a new Hospital with all the modern facilities for any sort of emergency, the foundation stone has been laid today in the morning in the presence of a good number of people in attendance while seated at the dais were the main Guest the Chief Minister of Goa Dr. Sawant along with other guests and special invitees namely the Minister and MLA of Calangute constituency Michael Lobo, Health Minister Viswajeet Rane, Mapusa MLA Joshua, Candolim Village Sarpanch and others.
What is the need of Hospital in Candolim when there already is one as existing and it is known as the Government Health Centre. However, in this same Health Centre due to the increasing number of population in our locality there appeared a demand for a bigger and better Hospital having latest instruments and facilities to cater to the needs of the people.
Taking note of this need, Candolim Village Panchayat in close liaison with the local MLA and Minister Michael Lobo laid the foundation stone for the construction of this new Hospital that has received a nod from the Jr. Rane.
Seen above are all the dignitaries namely Lobo -CM-V.Rane - Joshua
Let us see thru historical context how, when and under what circumstances the existing Health Centre was built. It was built about 50 years back. In fact the government plan under the then Chief Minister of Goa, Dayananda Bandodcar was for the erection of one Health Center at Siolim. All formalities were comleted only foundation stone date was to be announced. However, during that particular time 5 MGP MLA’s withdrew their support to MGP government. So to offset the loss of 5 of his MLA’s and to maintain the parity, Bandodcar started poaching for 5 MLA’s. He started searching frantically 5 MLA’s from UG Party even by purchasing them for any amount and giving them anything they want in exchange of 5 MLA’s. He found 4 namely from Benaulim Elu Miranda, from Aldona Orlando Lobo Sequira, from Vasco Abdul Razzak and one more. When he fund difficult to buy the 5th one, Bandodcar Approached his Saligao MLA Punaji Achrekar to approach Calangute Constituency MLA Valente Sequiera the resident of Candolim. The persons who brought heavy pressure on Valente Sequeira to defect from UGP to MGP were the popular Sarpanch of Candolim Domnick Lobo a Gulf returnee and one Panch Krishna Naik also a Gulf returnee. These two and Valente Sequiera all these three were the worst enemies of one local very prominent doctor who was the strong supporter and promoter of UGP. Though all the three were in good terms externally with the said doctor yet internally they craved for his blood. In order to make him lose his medical business and suffer heavy losses, the three traitors agreed to to help Valente Sequeira to join with Bandodcar’s MGP on condition that Bandodcar allot Candolim one hospital. For this Bandodcar immediately agreed and thus from Siolim project was transferred to Candolim though Siolim MGP MLA was not happy but Bandodcar succeeded in giving him a Lolipop in some other way.
What is the need of Hospital in Candolim when there already is one as existing and it is known as the Government Health Centre. However, in this same Health Centre due to the increasing number of population in our locality there appeared a demand for a better Hospital having latest instruments and facilities to cateer to the needs of the people.
Taking note of this need, Candolim Village Panchayat in close liaison with the local MLA and Minister Michael Lobo laid the foundation stone for the construction of this new Hospital.
Let us see thru historical context how, when and under what circumstances the existing Health Centre was built. It was built about 50 years back. In fact the government plan under the then Chief Minister of Goa, Dayananda Bandodcar was for the erection of one Health Center at Siolim. All formalities were completed only foundation stone date was to be announced. However, during that particular time 5 MGP MLA’s withdrew their support to MGP government. So to offset the loss of 5 of his MLA’s and to maintain the parity, Bandodcar started poaching for 5 MLA’s. He started searching frantically 5 MLA’s from UG Party even by purchasing them for any amount and giving them anything they want in exchange of 5 MLA’s. He found 4 namely from Benaulim Elu Miranda, from Aldona Orlando Lobo Sequira, from Vasco Abdul Razzak and one more. When he fund difficult to buy the 5th one, Bandodcar Approached his Saligao MLA Punaji Achrekar to approach Calangute Constituency MLA Valente Sequiera the resident of Candolim. The persons who brought heavy pressure on Valente Sequeira to defect from UGP to MGP were the popular Sarpanch of Candolim Domnick Lobo a Gulf returnee and one Panch Krishna Naik also a Gulf returnee. These two and Valente Sequiera all these three were the worst enemies of one local very prominent doctor who was the strong supporter and promoter of UGP. Though all the three were in good terms externally with the said doctor yet internally they craved for his blood. In order to make him lose his medical business and suffer heavy losses, the three traitors agreed to to help Valente Sequeira to join with Bandodcar’s MGP on condition that Bandodcar allot Candolim one hospital. For this Bandodcar immediately agreed and thus from Siolim project was transferred to Candolim though Siolim MGP MLA was not happy but Bandodcar succeeded in giving him a Lolipop in some other way.
In this way the Health Center of Candolim was erected but that doctor whom all the three local tin-pot politicians wanted to teach a good lesson purely out of jealousy for the good doctor no negative effect was created.
The reason to lay the foundation stone for this Hosital yesterday 10th of this month was to mark the birthday of the local Candolim Sarpanch Blaize. Taking advantage of this write – up, I wish Blaize a very happy birthday and pray to God to give him wisdom and guidance to rule our village nicely without any bias towards anyone.
Once again, Blaize, I wish you a very hapopy birthday on behalf of me, my family and all the like minded people of Candolim.
A.Veronica Fernandes.