DR LEAO DA COSTA PASSES AWAY HE WAS THE MOST USEFUL LINK BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH IN THOSE YEARS ABOUT 50-60 YEARS BACK. A RESIDENT DOCTOR AT DANDEAVADOO, CHINCHINIM., HE FILLED A VERY IMPORTANT NICHE IN THE CARE OF THE SICK AND DYING. HE WAS THE HOPE AND SAVIOUR, SAVING MANY PRECIOUS LIVES. A VERY SOFT SPOKEN DOCTOR ,AFABLE, CARING, CONCERNED MEDICAL PRACTIONER, .THE MEDICINES WERE MOSTLY DISPENSEDSED BY HIM AND NO PRESCRIPTION WERE ISSUED. I DO NOT RECALL EXISTENCE OF ANY PHARMACIES THEN, OR PATIENTS DEPENDING ON PATENTED DRUGS.MANY A TIMES THESE SERVICES WERE DISPENSED ON CREDIT WITHOUT GRUDGE FOR THE NEEDY. I FONDLY REMEMBER THAT WITH HIS MILD AND CALM NATURE, THE EMPHASIS WAS NEVER ON MONETARY CONSIDERATION. HE NEVER DEMANDED FEES AS A PRECONDITION FOR HIS SERVICES AND TREATMENT, BUT PATIENTS ALWAYS REDEEMED THEIR DEBTS FAITHFULLY AND WITH DEEP SENSE OF GRATITUDE. RESIDENTS OF DANDEAVADO AND SURROUNDING VILLAGES WERE UNDER HIS CARE PERHAPS MANY OF US WERE SAVED BY HIS TIMELY INTERVENTION AND OWE OUR EXISTENCE TO THIS SIMPLE DOCTOR .WE ARE DUTY BOUND TO RECOGNISE AND FONDLY RECALL HIS INVALUABLE SERVICES TO THE RESIDENTS OF DANDEAVADO IN PARTICULAR., WHEN HE FINALLY LEFT THE PALCE TO SETTLE DOWN AT DAVORLIM HIS NATIVE PLACE AND SPEND HIS DAYS THERE, HE CREATED A VOID IN THE HEARTS OF HIS PATIENTS MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE AND GOD GRANT HIM A PLACE IN HIS PARADISE FOR HIS WELL DESRVED HUMANITARIAN LABOUR OF LOVE WE CONVEY OUR CONDOLENCES TO THE BEREAVED FAMILY, REMINDING THEM THAT DOCTOR LEAO WILL PERPETUALLY LIVE IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF HIS PATIENTS , WHOM HE TOUCHED WITH HIS HEALING HANDS. THE LOSS TO US ,THE RESIDENTS, PATIENTS AT DANDEAVADO IS AS PERSONAL LIKE THE FAMILY BORN ON 10/4/1916 HE BREATHED LAST ON 9/5/2013, AT THE AGE OF 97,BLESSED WITH WELL EDUCATED CHILDREN AND COMFORTABLE PLACED IN THE SOCIETY THE EUCHARIST CELEBRATION WILL BE CONDUCTED AT ST JOSEPH CHAPEL AT DAVORLIM AND BURIAL AT THE CEMETRY OF OUR LADY ROSARY CHURCH NAVELIM on 10/5/2013 Nelson Lopes
