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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Chhattisgarh coal levy scam: Rs 4 crore assets of suspended IAS officer attached
Raipur (PTI): The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has attached properties of Rs 4 crore belonging to suspended IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi, an accused in a coal levy scam, for allegedly amassing assets beyond his known sources of income, officials said.
The EOW had registered a disproportionate assets case against Vishnoi in July 2024, an official release said on Saturday.
During the investigation, the agency identified nine immovable properties, valued at around Rs 4 crore, allegedly acquired through illicit means in the names of Vishnoi’s family members and associated firms, it said.
“An application seeking attachment of these properties was filed before the Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act in Raipur. Following a hearing on April 17, the court ordered attachment of all such properties,” the statement said.
Accordingly, the Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing attached the properties. The attached properties cannot be sold or transferred, it said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier provisionally attached five immovable properties linked to Vishnoi in connection with the coal levy scam, it added.
Proceedings are also underway in cases involving other public servants, including action taken in September last year against properties linked to Saumya Chaurasia, who was deputy secretary in the chief minister’s office during the Congress government, the statement said.
Vishnoi, a 2009-batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was first arrested in 2022 by the ED in connection with the alleged coal levy scam. He was among several accused who were granted bail last year by the Supreme Court.
The case refers to an alleged Rs 540 crore racket between July 2020 and June 2022, when an illegal levy of Rs 25 per tonne was being extorted by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen for every tonne of coal transported in the state.
