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Vincent Andrade wrote on Oct 17 05:51:17 2004
<Malaria is an easily curable disease so I am wondering what went wrong. Was it negligence or wrong diagnosis???
I live in Mangalore where Malaria is rampant...a course of Resochin DS (Chloroquine).... In three days the affected person is out of it. Its that easy in Mangalore.
So whats happening in Goa ??? How come it lead to death??. >
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Vicentebab,
Greetings from here.
wrt Malaria, worldwide, an estimated 300 million people are infected with Malaria annually. The number of people who contract chloroquine (and other drug) resistant malaria is rising fast.
Every year Malaria (on the average) claims the lives of one million children alone.
There are many causes for death from Malaria. Important among them - a lack of immunity.
In places (like mangalore) where Malaria is endemic, the level of immunity (among the indigenous population) will be high & the death rate low. Mangalore's high death rates occured some years ago. The next increase in deaths will come with the development of Drug Resistance.
That is why there is a race to produce newer drugs (or re-try older ones like ARTEMISNIN) and to produce an effective vaccine.
Please note that Falciparum malaria has been around for more years than you and I can count - AND is the major+++++ cause of death from Malaria.
In summary, there is NOTHING strange happening in Goa. NO wrong diagnosis, NO medical negligence with this case, NOTHING of the sort.
The wanton negligence has been occuring over the past 40 years with the spread of filth and political slums aka Vote Banks. It occured with the lack of proper health checks on migrant labour who have brought in the Chloroquine resistant malaria to Goa.
The malaria parasite is one beneficiary of this brilliant confusao brought about by this post 1961 servile attitude of the senior Goa doctors towards their political masters. Senior docs who have kept silent and done zip besides put make believe gloss over rubble.
A few ostriches may get anti-timewarped (;-) by this comment but this servile attitude of the senior Goa doctors is definitely a post 1961 phenomenon.
It's also known as the : Sir Sir Sir, Yes Sir ! attitude.
The next time you visit the House of Assembly, please look out for the Top Docs of the Goa Medical College. If you meet them there, do ask them why they spends outside their area of work & what they are doing running up and down with those Files under their armpits.
I know I saw a very harrassed Topmost Hancho from GMC running around like a Scary Kat.
Whatever happened to all those non-Goan secretaries they brought in from wherever?
cheers
jc
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