Meet Dr. Shabeeha, young doctor serving as frontline Corona Warrior in Mangaluru as her first job
Mangaluru: Young Mangaluru Doctor, Dr. Maryam Shabeeha, who is one among the frontline Corona Warriors fighting the deadly Corona Virus right from the very beginning of her career as a professional Doctor, believes that the pandemic is one of the biggest challenges of the medical field, but she also opines that there is no need to panic about the virus.
Her mantra in treating the COVID-19 patients so far has been being friendly with the patients and she thinks that being friendlier with the patients helps them find their lost confidence back.
Dr. Maryam Shabeeha, daughter of Mohammad Ismail Paper Godown, and Zainabi, residents of Padil in Puttur is serving at the District Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru. Her family is famously known as Paper Godown in the Puttur region. She completed her medical education at the Yenepoya Medical College in the city and started her medical career with treatments of Corona patients. With a firm will to serve the people along with her father’s support, she attended the interview at the District Hospital and was selected to treat the Corona patients.
Shabeeha joined the team of doctors handling COVID cases on April 15 and has since been serving at the hospital as frontline Corona Warrior with pride and courage.
“The Wenlock Hospital had only a small number of infected patients and a few suspected patients when I joined. Now, the number is increasing. The frontline Corona Warriors are facing a lot of pressure as well. Each one of us has to work for a minimum of six hours a day, six days a week,” she said while calling the treatment of Corona patients a rare opportunity to serve people.
“Corona is a pandemic, but most patients show no symptoms of the virus. They are more in a sort of stupor because they are not allowed to meet their relatives at the hospitals during the month-long period of repurification. Their level of confidence falls gradually. It then becomes the responsibility of the doctors to not just perform their duty of service but also treat the patients with friendliness,” she stressed and added that the symptomatic patients are counseled to give them the confidence to overcome the battle against the virus.
“Since we wear PPE kits during treatment, the patients do not get to see our faces. They recognize us only through our styles of speaking and friendly talk. The patients ask us if we will come on beat the next day too. For a doctor, having such a relationship with patients is very important,” Dr. Sabeeha reminisced.
“My father, who had wished to see me as a doctor even before I did, is my role model. He had a desire to see patients get free medical service, which inspired me as a child to dream of becoming a doctor. Unlike my father who supported my decision to attend the interview at Wenlock Hospital, my mother was worried when she learned of my selection to the COVID Division. Now, however, she too has been convinced that the work I do is very dangerous” Shabeeha said.
“A disease or health problem may develop in our society at any time, giving rise to panic. Serving as a doctor during general conditions and during a crisis are very different. I decided to work in the COVID Division to experience the difference” she explained.
Dr. Sabeeha hopes to continue her career after Corona in the primary health centers in rural areas.
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AIITA welcomes Karnataka’s ban on obscene songs in school events
Bhatkal: The Karnataka unit of the All India Ideal Teachers Association (AIITA) has welcomed the Karnataka government’s decision to strictly ban school children from dancing to obscene songs during educational and cultural programmes in government, aided, and private schools across the state.
AIITA Karnataka State President M. R. Manvi congratulated the government for taking what he termed an important step to preserve the sanctity of education.
“Such decisions to safeguard the dignity of school children and uphold the values of education are the need of the hour. This rule should not be limited to government schools alone but must be strictly implemented in all private educational institutions as well,” he said.
He further urged the government to address other concerns within school programmes.
“The government should not only prohibit obscene dances in the name of school anniversaries, but also ensure that plays and dialogues that incite religious hatred are avoided. Schools should be centres of harmony, not platforms for spreading hatred,” he added.
According to a recent circular issued by the Department of School Education and Literacy, obscene dances are adversely affecting the mental health and moral values of students.
In this regard, schools have been advised to use songs that promote nationalism, positive thinking, the greatness of Kannada culture, and value-based traditions instead of inappropriate content during programmes.
The circular also emphasises that students should be dressed in decent attire.
AIITA also backed the department’s warning that disciplinary action would be taken against head teachers if such guidelines are violated. The association has further demanded that district Deputy Directors of Public Instruction strictly monitor the implementation of these rules.
