Melvyn Fernandes melvyn at orange.net on Tue Jul 8 06:27:16 PDT 2014 wrote:
There are doctors and there are doctors. In Goa some behave like unscrupulous taxi drivers when it comes to charging as our people are easily frightened and believe that their lives are in the hands of doctors who take advantage of this belief. These doctors need to be reminded they are not God and that there is a higher authority that will assist sincere doctors and their assistants who take pride in patient care duties at whatever the nominal rate is. Unlike others who can only see money first regardless of patient care. My experience of this was when a friend of mine took ill in Goa last year having had lunch at a beach shack in Candolim. To cut a long story short, he had food poisioning. What happened, a Goa government ambulance was called from Mapusa to the residence in Candolim. The ambulance crew was very professional (full marks to them) and took an ECG reading on their antiquated mobile equipment. They then took another ECG reading fitted inside the ambulance which I travelled in and got a more accurate picture. A friend of his stopped the ambulance from proceeding to the Government hospital in Mapusa and we were directed to a private teaching hospital in Candolim. The building looked all professional and we had to sign some paperwork discharging the ambulance crew. There was no cost involved up to this point….. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2014-July/699755.html COMMENT: Well, whom do you place the blame on, for your experience? 1- The Goa government which does not have adequate Health care facilities? 2- The Private Medical care Centres which have their own unregulated private agenda? 3- The public/relative who make a decision as to where the patient concerned should be admitted? 4- The patient himself who does not make adequate plans as to his decision in case of any medical emergency? Come on! You people write as though you all are so learned, and that you still did not have a plan made as to where to go, or to be taken in case of a medical emergency? Are these not part and parcel of Safety Procedures for travel? You’ll exhibit complete complacency in decisions on your health, well being, as well as your life, on unknown people?! Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
