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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Adityanath meets Singapore Deputy PM; assures investors of biz-focussed policies in UP
Singapore/Lucknow (PTI): Uttar Pradesh is ready with land bank, business-focused policies and safety and security, Chief Minister Adityanath told investors in Singapore on Tuesday on a day he met the country's top leaders, including Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong.
On the second day of his official visit to Singapore, Adityanath met the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong, and Coordinating Minister for National Security and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam, official sources said here.
Held in the presence of a high-level delegation, the discussions focused on leveraging Singapore's expertise in urban planning, internal security architecture and digital governance to help Uttar Pradesh achieve the target of becoming a one-trillion-dollar economy.
During talks with Gan Kim Yong, the chief minister emphasised on UP's pro-business environment and highlighted the state's vast land bank and improved connectivity expected from after the Noida International Airport becomes operational.
The meeting also explored the possibility of Singaporean companies establishing industrial townships in the Delhi-NCR, with particular focus on semiconductor manufacturing and green hydrogen modules.
During his interaction with K Shanmugam, Adityanath discussed modernisation of the state's law and order framework, with emphasis on Singapore's technology-integrated policing model and disaster management protocols.
Speaking to investors, Adityanath listed infrastructure, logistics, MROs among other projects in the pipeline in the state, and said he held more than 100 meetings with the business community during his visit to Singapore.
The UP CM also noted that Singapore investors were committed to a large number of projects in India and UP, including the Ganga Expressway.
Business leaders Adityanath met included CEO and chairpersons of Temasek, Government Investment Corp (GIC), Singapore Airport Terminal Services, and Blackstone.
