[IAC#RG] INSTEAD OF RIBANDAR THE AYUSH CENTER CAN BE AT MANIPAL HOSPITAL RUN BY GOA’S BABA RAMDEV

The Old Ribandar Hospital which is Asia's first Medical school has a very glorious history. It was an excellent hospital and many of us were born there. The heritage structure was designed for it to house state of the art medical facilities which people from across Goa benefited.

The Old Ribandar hospital was an allopathic one and must so remain. It is deplorable that our Ayurvedic Chief Minister Pramod Sawant at the instance of Union Ayush Minister Shripad Naik with oblique motives wants to have a needless Ayush Center there.  

That proposed Ayush Center can be instead hosted in the Manipal Hospital at Dona Paula which is better known as a BJP hospital. The Ayush work there can be entrusted to the head of the BJP's Medical cell Dr. Shekhar Salkar, who illegally masquerades as an Oncologist though not qualified as one while the Indian Medical Association strangely has taken no action against him while allowing the lives of gullible patients to be in peril.

Needless to add Dr. Shekhar Salkar has also had an outstanding good financial bumper crop at the Goa Cricket Association and also at National Organization for Eradication of Tobacco (NOTE) which he heads. Those gross financial irregularities of he chewing public funds was even debated in the Goa Legislative Assembly. This known Cancer quack also doubles up as Goa's Baba Ramdev.

In recent years, almost every patient I have known who has been to Manipal Hospital at Dona Paula has faced a hell of a nightmare. Most of those patients have landed up in the morgue, with their families lumbered with massive and extremely exorbitant bills. For the family of someone already going through the pain of illness, it is added agony to being financially ripped off with very inflated bills. This anguish faced by the family members is heart breaking to have to collect a dead body and paying up that huge bill landing them in a deep financial hole.

Manipal hospital seems to be lacking any Code of ethics. A concern for the well-being of the patient is never there, while they merrily secure and pursue their commercial interests. The government ought to order an immediate inquiry into the dubious affairs at Manipal Hospital and the probe has to zero in around Dr. Shekhar Salkar who runs the commercial show there. He neither has a degree nor even a diploma in either Oncology or Oncosurgery.

Three weeks ago a 85 year old pious gentleman and close friend from Ribandar miraculously escaped from being butchered by Dr Shekhar Salkar who was all set for another five lakh windfall to operate on my friend who had a growth on his intestine. Luckily my friend who timely smelt a rat and the doctor's devious game plan, hastily sought discharge from the Manipal Hospital within hours of his admission there. Fortunately my friend sought immediate alternate medical advice and is keeping well after being successfully operated elsewhere.

Dr Shekhar Salkar has been grossly misusing his position as Head of Goa BJP's Medical cell to illegally and unethically rake up huge financial benefits for Manipal hospital while also enriching his own pockets. He should not be allowed to inhumanely and immorally gamble with people's lives.  There is abundant documentary evidence to the effect that the politically well-connected Dr Salkar has been unduly interfering and sabotaging the working of Government hospitals as well, only to benefit his Manipal Hospital.

Let us hope that our Health Minister Vishwajit Rane orders a prompt thorough inquiry into the blatant misdeeds and wrongdoings at the Manipal hospital. This financial exploitation of patients cannot be allowed to go on unpunished. We also need to know as to how that building on free government land which was a Goa Cancer Society hospital landed in the soiled hands of the Manipal Hospital entrepreneurs.

Instead of going to this Manipal Hospital, a patient may be well advised to die in peace somewhere else. At least the family's life savings would not be swallowed by this proven vulture of a hospital. The family will also be saved the financial ordeal and trauma they would have to go through after losing their loved one there, at Dona Paula.

 

Adv. Aires Rodrigues

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