Sir, — Kalburagi is lagging behind as far as medical care is concerned. There is a unit of the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru, here where only radio therapy service is available. Surgery is still a distant dream for the local residents.
Poor and middle class patients are put to severe hardship in the absence of this facility. They have to shell out a huge amount for treatment in Solapur, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Sharan Prakash Patil, Minister of State for Medical Education, is striving hard to revive this centre with all facilities that are available in Bengaluru.
Because of his initiatives, Kalaburagi is all set to have a branch of the Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bengaluru, and it will be functional in next the six months at the Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences here.
Mudgal Venkatesh,
Kalaburagi
Ease traffic problems
Sir, — At last people at the helm have opened their eyes and decided to beautify Kalaburgi city. But this is not enough. The authorities must first address the bottleneck traffic jam problems of the city and ease road congestion by simultaneous widening of main roads and connecting roads such as Fort Road and Airport road.
Qamarul Islam, Urban Development Minister who is in-charge of the district, should take interest in road-widening in Kalaburgi city without any fear or favour.
People will remember him for this task for long.
Basavaraj Modi,
Kalaburgi
Absconding Minister
Sir, — A week has passed and the police cannot trace the convicted and now absconding Goa’s former Rural Development Minister Mickky Pacheco. Nobody knows where Mr. Pacheco is hiding but all we know is that he is in the company of his man Friday Lyndon Monteiro. If the police cannot locate an MLA, it is only a sad reflection of the total breakdown in law and order.
Police officials claim that they have been searching for Mickky Pacheco in casinos and discotheques.
Aires Rodrigues,
Goa
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