WHO IS THIS IDIOT DOCTOR?

Who is this Idiot Doctor? Asked me by a renowned Kuwaiti Cardiologist once in Kuwait when I went to him to check my cardiac problem. Then he went a little further and again asked me, “since your doctor in Goa is a Psychiatrist, why he interfered in your sickness of Cardiology?” Then he asked me one more question, “is this the normal medical system in Goa?”

It all happened because during one of my vacations in Goa a few years back I went for my check-up to one doctor who happened to be a Psychiatrist and while checking me he noticed some flaws in my heart beats for which he prescribed some medicine.  After returning to Kuwait, I showed that prescription given to me by  the Goan doctor to my regular Cardiologist in Kuwait.  Reading the prescription of my Goan doctor he noticed his designation as Psychiatrist and got annoyed for handling cases not pertaining to his speciality. Hence, he remarked saying “Who is this idiot Doctor?”.   

In Mapusa till recently there was one Orthopedic doctor/surgeon practicing at one of the Private Hospitals but he was handling any type of patients including Cancer patients and unfortunately every Cancer patient he operated died.  Yet he was not changing his dirty habit of not sticking to his specialty. 

In Salcete there was one doctor/surgeon whose speciality was TB but again like our Mapsencar doctor, he too was handling patients suffering from any type of sickness including Cancer and thus instead of curing the patients he was killing them.   

In Calangute constituency there are two Private Hospitals where patients of any sickness are admitted even though there are neither competent doctors there nor proper facilities to handle all types of sickness of the patients but they admit in their hospitals any type of patient.  Finally when they realize that they are unable to cure the patients, they either shift those patients to GMC at the last minute or silently allow the patients to die in their own hospitals.  Even the patients they shift to GMC at the last minute do not survive forcing the doctors to ask “Why did you not bring the patients earlier so that appropriate medical treatment could have been provided”.

In government hospitals most of the Nurses are become Curses and most of the Private hospitals are become money making rackets because many of the doctors there are acting like butchers who for the sake of money butcher their conscience and medical ethics by doing things which are not appropriate for their noble profession. These doctors do not care for human life but care only for money in which direction they will do anything because they are so corrupt.  In fact many of them are more corrupt than the corrupt politicians.  In my constituency the two hospitals as indicated above are already named by the people as “Killing Hospitals” because of this Tag patients have started to boycott these hospitals. According to my latest information some constituents of this Constituency are gearing up to campaign against these hospitals thru the printed leaflets which will be distributed in the locality indicating the flaws existing in these hospitals.

The most important tactic some of the money making doctors are making is to instill fear into the minds of the patients and their relatives saying “the sickness is serious and requires immediate operation” costing not only thousands but lakhs of rupees.  For this reason before going for major operation a second opinion must be sought because many of the current doctors are not sincere to their Oath. Many people have lost their trust in the present day doctors.

There are some doctors in private hospitals who by referring their patients to certain hospitals for specialized treatment when it is not necessary, get hefty commission just as corrupt politicians do. Some of the doctors are so corrupt that their corruption is worst than that of corrupt politicians.

In view of above, I feel, the government must enact a legislation to restrict the doctors to handle patients only those who come under their specialization.  Also, one more legislation to prevent private hospitals from admitting patients whose cases are beyond the capacity of those hospitals.

A.    Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.

TEACHERS DAY OR MODI DAY?

 

The Teachers  Day on 5^th of this month was finally for the first time converted into a Modi Day thereby ignoring the memory of the great educationist Dr. Radhakrishnan on whose birthday this day is celebrated to honour this great educationist.  Dr. Radakrishnan was the giant of an educationist and a very tall philosopher who taught the great Hindu philosophy even at Oxford where even the great President of America, John F. Kennedy during his short stint there attended Dr. Radakrishnan lecturers and got himself educated on Hindu philosophy. Dr. Radakrishnan was the world renown philosopher whose thoughts were very lofty and because of this even Nehru as premier of India was very cautious with him.  In fact Nehru was afraid of him.  India was very fortunate to have such a president because of whom India’s ratings internationally had gone up.

 

On this day teachers are rested and their duties are taken over by the senior students. However, this year premier Modi bypassed all the traditional exercises and as a Hitler by usurping power in his hands imposed his unwanted lecture on the students, this lecture was understood only by the students who had a perfect command of Hindi. In this case almost half the number of Indian students failed to understand the contents of Modi’s lecture. It was a big tamasha of Modi to wield power to impose on the nation his meaningless lecture.  It was a shame on Modi to ignore the memory of Dr. Radakrishnan and instead foist his own memory on the nation.  In the bargain Dr. Radakrishnan was totally forgotten.  Modi of BJP just like Goa CM Parricar are showing clear signs of Hitlers in the making. 

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa,

Tel: 7507394349.

TRIBUTE TO THERESA FERNANDES.

                    
                                                              Born Date: 14.08.1950
                                                              Died Date:  08.09.2011

It is now three years since Mrs. Theresa Fernandes died as shown in the photo above.  She was known to me as a young pretty looking and good disciplined girl when she was schooling at Little Flower Convent High School, Calangute, Bardez, Goa. I was then schooling at Arpora and we both passed our SSC together by answering our Board exam together in the same hall at St. Britto’s High School venue, Mapusa.

After completing her SSC, she went to Bombay and later on got married to her husband Jerry Fernandes (Cal), also from Calangute and who was my colleague at Arpora for a long time.  Jerry Cal was a very well known young boy at Arpora School and in his locality as well excelling in sports. He was Table Tennis Champion of Arpora School as well as of Calangute and Carrem Socorro.  Besides, Jerry Cal was number one in Cycle Race both in Cross country 25 kms and in 1500 metres.  Additionally, he was a very popular amateur Tiatrist in his locality and in surrounding villages.   After finishing his SSC he too went to Bombay where he studied Hotel Management and migrated to Abu Dhabi where he worked as an Executive Chef in prestigious 5 Star Hotels.  From here he was sent to UK, Germany and Holland for further studies in Hotel Management.

After getting married to Jerry Cal, Theresa joined her husband in Abu Dhabi and got herself employed at The British Bank of the Middle East later on known as HSBC (Hongkong Sanghai Bank Corp.) where she worked for 27 years till her voluntary retirement.  While in Abu Dhabi, she was involved in lot of extracurricular activities and social work.  She was one prominent lady in Abu Dhabi along with her husband to help raise funds for Konkani movement such as for Novem Goem, Konkani Martyrs, KPA etc.

She along with her husband was instrumental in bringing Tiatro troupes to Abu Dhabi from Goa, namely of M. Boyer, Fr. Fredy J.D’Costa, Menino de Bhandar, C. Alvares, Rosario Rodrigues and Pascoal Rodrigues. In some of the Tiatros she also acted along with her husband and earned a good name for herself.

By using her personal influence and spending money from her own pocket, she brought many poor Goans to Abu Dhabi for employment besides providing some jobless Goans with suitable jobs. She was instrumental in organizing the Feast of St. Francis Xavier in Abu Dhabi for over a decade. Also she was helping to sponsor priests in Goa. 

She as a wife and as a mother was very responsible person towards her mission and goals. A woman of very good character she performed her motherly duties very well by bringing up all her 4 children – three daughters and one son, all are married except one daughter - very well,  discipline wise, character wise and educationally. One daughter after completing her BSc did the course in Pharmacy and settled in Abu Dhabi; the other daughter an MBA also working in Abu Dhabi and the third one a spinster after doing her graduation, BBM in Bangalore did her MBA at Cardiff University, UK and currently employed in Abu Dhabi as well.  The son after completing his Hotel Management started his own business in Calangute.

She loved Goa, she loved Konkani and she loved Goan causes and all these attributes she displayed openly while she was working in Abu Dhabi.

In her death three years back, Goa lost a great woman who was ever ready to help any Goan cause. Also, in her death my friend Jerry Cal lost a great supportive and faithful wife and her children lost their great and loving mother.

MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE.

 

A.    Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim,

Goa.