Please name the journalist. Everyone else has been subjected to public pillorying
Instagram: @Ferraodesigns Twitter: @Ferraodesigns https://www.facebook.com/Ferraodesigns On Mon, 9 Jun, 2025, 14:27 Frederick Noronha, <[email protected]> wrote: > Most of you would have run into this news, even if you didn't want to. In > my case, someone gobbling a rice-plate two tables away was playing it very > loudly at my favourite prawn-curry rice place on Saturday. It relates to > the Goa Medical College. > > It started off with this video, showing Goa's health minister, the > articulate but controversial Vishwajit Rane verbally attacking a doctor on > duty: > https://youtu.be/jv_jWNOX_Ps?feature=shared > > Soon, the video went viral. Most viewers were shocked to see how a > doctor-on-duty was being addressed, that too video-recorded and shared, and > for what apparently was no fault of his. (He supposedly declined to > administer a B12 injection in the Casualty on a day when the OPDs were > shut.) > > All kinds of questions came up. Who was the journalist? (Subsequently > named.) Who had shot the video (not clear, some suggestion that the > minister takes his own camera persons with him...) > > The IMA-Indian Medical Association came out with a strong statement. > > Journalist Devika Sequeira wrote: Real culprit in health minister > Vishwajit P Rane's unwarranted outburst against the chief medical officer > at GMC is a self-important Marathi journalist who insisted his > mother-in-law be given an injection. When the CMO directed him to the > health centre, he called the dean and then Rane. Lapdog journalists are > worse than politicians these days." > > A doctor posted this on another group: "We had this ALL the time in the > UAE. A 'local' would breeze into the hospital and demand any shit - B12 > inj, CT, anything. We just moved out of the way and called the 'PRO', a > local, who would intervene and try to direct them appropriately. Nightmare! > If - if - this was over a B12 inj., I feel like vomiting 🤢. Rane would > have to resign in the UK I'm pretty sure." > > An online petition went out: Can you help me out by signing this petition? > https://chng.it/9GFm4Q8cjf > > Journalist Kishore Naik Gaonkar put out another video, where he talks > about Rane coming under some family property allegations, and him > dismissing a number of Rane employees from some government undertakings: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXvoL6m9c54&feature=youtu.be This doesn't > seem directly connected with this case, but Gaonkar (in his Gaunkari > channel on YouTube) was making the point of possible misuse of government > departments for personal battles. > > Finally, Vishwajit came out with some form of an apology: > https://www.youtube.com/live/uYqHc-0B9o4?si=gGAmer17dsy9ae3B But the > issue left behind many questions -- who was right and who was wrong? Should > media persons be expecting special treatment in cases like this? Who shot > the videos? And who shared the same? With what intentions?L How did it all > go so badly wrong? Finally, what is the proper relationship between the > Press and politicians, between politicians (even ministers) and the > technical departments they run? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goanet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goanet-temp/CA%2Bmqab8GNQPp1MGVyvMJBFTSFzKO3PJBfoXTDrg7Yk1rRWD0Vg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goanet-temp/CA%2Bmqab8GNQPp1MGVyvMJBFTSFzKO3PJBfoXTDrg7Yk1rRWD0Vg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . >
