After Chief Minister Pramod Sawant got well from COVID-19 during the first surge of the coronavirus in Goa, he declared : ‘Bhivpachigarazna’, which in Konkani means, ‘There is no need to be frightened’.
But for more than 70 patients who have died in the past few days without oxygen in the Goa Medical College (GMC) it must have been a frightening experience to watch each other gasp to death.
The oxygen supply in the wards of the GMC has been repeatedly dipping between 2 am and 4 am and relatives of patients have looked. . .