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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Bengal: On way to PM's rally, 3 mowed down by train amid dense fog
Kolkata (PTI): Three persons died and three others were injured after being hit by a train amid dense fog on Saturday, while travelling to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally at Taherpur in West Bengal's Nadia district, a senior official said.
The incident occurred between Taherpur and Badkulla railway stations under the Sealdah-Krishnanagar section of Eastern Railway, he said.
Modi, whose helicopter could not land at Taherpur due to dense fog and low visibility, condoled the death of the “BJP workers” in his virtual address from Kolkata airport.
“I have come to know that some BJP workers, while travelling to the rally, lost their lives in a rail accident. My condolences are with the families of those who have lost their loved ones, and I pray for the speedy recovery of the injured,” Modi said.
The Eastern Railway official told PTI that the incident occurred in the morning when these people, who were travelling by a bus, had stopped the vehicle and walked to the railway tracks to answer nature's call.
"While three persons died on the spot, two others with injuries were admitted to a local hospital," he said.
Another person with minor injuries was released after having been administered first aid, the official said.
The deceased have been identified as Ramprasad Ghosh (74), Shaktipada Sutradhar (55) and Gopinath Das (38).
Meanwhile, Mahua Moitra, Trinamool Congress MP from Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district, alleged that the BJP ignored the incident and went ahead with the rally.
"Terrible tragedy hushed up at altar of @narendramodi ego. @BJP4India supporters brought from far Murshidabad for PM rally in Ranaghat today," she said in a post on X.
"4 went to answer nature's call and were killed by 31814 down local train near Taherpur. BJP ignored, blacked out & went ahead with rally," Moitra claimed.
Reacting to her remarks, the West Bengal BJP, in a post on X, asserted that the TMC "has always been adept at milking tragedies", and was being "disrespectful to the unfortunate victims of this tragedy".
The TMC alleged that BJP leaders have not shown "neither concern nor compassion" over the mishap.
"The loss of three lives in Taherpur should have united everyone in grief. But @BJP4India leaders showed neither concern nor compassion," it said in another post on X.
"At this painful moment, Smt @MamataOfficial and Shri @abhishekaitc put humanity above party lines and stood beside the families of the deceased," the party said.
TMC’s on-ground leaders promptly reached out to the grieving family members, ensuring them of help and assistance, it said.
"While Delhi’s rulers chase Bengal with arrogance, our leadership chose empathy. This is the difference between politics of power and politics of people!" the TMC added.
