Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji
Panaji, May 10: After villagers are compelled to visit Margao for healthcare needs, residents of Curdi-Waddem in Sanguem have appealed to the government to set up a Covid care centre in their village. Sanguem has three residential colonies of those displaced from the Selaulim dam project.
Kushta Gaonkar, sarpanch of Curdi-Waddem village panchayat, said that the number of Covid cases are rising.
Some 30 years ago, when people were rehabilitated at Waddem some 30 years ago, the government had constructed a building for housing health centre, he said. However, it has been lying unused. "This structure could be converted into a Covid care centre with some minor upkeep," he said.
"Though it is unused, it has electricity and water connection," the sarpanch added.