Navelim/Margao, Oct. 28 -- Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has announced that all six assurances made during home visits to patients requiring critical and palliative care in Navelim and Margao have been fulfilled within 24 hours.

Rane said essential medical support, including two Fowler beds, an oxygen concentrator, a mobile phone and medicines, had been delivered to address the needs of the patients.

He also announced that the Emergency Care Centre at the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Navelim has been set up. A doctor and an advanced paramedic are scheduled to be available at the centre from tonight.

The ambulance service has also commenced operations, while patient visits to the Emergency Care Centre have begun, according to the min...