Manipal Hospital -Goa -Negligence /Questionable Health Care

                           Manipal Hospital ICU –Goa –(Health Care –Blots a Nobel Profession )

 

State of the art Health Care??-“Mission and Vision Statement”

                                   My Mother Mrs Genoveva Pereira  was admitted and operated in Manipal Hospital (24-Aug- To 10 Sept 2012) ,this was howerver the second time she was operated the first time being in 2010 sucessfully and by Humane service of Doctors who are next to God for us!!

                                    Whilst underscoring the burning issue which I am about to unravel  with you below I would like to begin in great humility and gratitude to

                (1)Dr.Mahesh Naik  who did a Fabulous job in conducting the major surgery successfully  ,

                (2)Dr .Mahesh Parsekar :-Assisted in the operation

               (3)Dr. Vasco Dsilva:-Assisted in the operation

              (4) Dr. Madu Mohan :-Assisted in the operation

             (5) Dr .Akshaya Valvaikar:-Absolute angel in giving us timely feedback with empathy whilst my mother was in ICU am ever so –Grateful for the last moments we spent with our dying mother which will remain with us always –God Bless her and the entire fraternity of medical professionals including the ones who did not seem to care ,and a quite a few of them who are present in Goa Manipal Hospital who are either there by Choice ,Compulsion or simply because of complacence of personnel responsible for general administration  of the entity

 

 

                                        I am writing this to your great institution for the benefit of the upkeep of this great profession that has been looked up by all, and in the interest of right & timely judgment being taken by the trained medical professionals on duty without treating it as “Just another Case/Just another patient!!!”

(A)Incompetent Staff :-Dr Robin Morajkar ,sister Sheetal:  My mother was moved out to Room No# 105  on the 4^th of Aug 2012 my sisters have been present with her and all seemed well ,at 03:-30 Am she was unusual my sisters rang the bell and was attended by sister Sheetal who took it very casual and crosschecked  with  Dr Robin ,Apparently it was just 2 staff on the entire floor of a full house hospital my mother showed unususal signs of heartattack visible to lay persons :-Sweating ,violent shiver etc,however Dr Robin Morajkar and Sister Sheetal passed it off as a common fever!! And even covered her with a blanket!!!,whilst my sisters tried to soak the sweat in gauze Am Appalled and Agast with the very response of Dr Robin Morajkar and Sr Sheetal who have displayed sheer ignorance!! (For sure this may not be the first case –and perhaps will not be the last if CORRECTIVE steps are not taken by the able administrator) NO ACTION WAS Taken until 08:30 Hrs a good 5 and  half hrs to move a critical patient to ICU which is just 10 meters away !!!!  and in the bargin have lost my mother ,this has been a height of INCOMPETENCE, I only thought in the movies it is exaggerated that a PIZZA reaches faster than a ambulance!! This is no cliché I have witnessed this whilst awating to see my dying mother, a Pizza delivery boy is granted access (Read delivery) to Manipal Hospital ICU,after being in the kitchen vulnerable to all sort of infections by doing deliveries , I commend his spirit  and commitment of the jobs as he takes it seriously ! but dying patients family members have to follow embargo & protocol of visiting timings!!! How strange and cynical we get even though educated attached link is :-Pizza delivery to ICU on the said date

 

Truly Dominos pizza mission statement of “Hungry Kya !! Knows no boundry !!! and supersedes your entities  Mission Statement  which is displayed in all departments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZEh-4rWAHc:-footage@icu

(B)Misinformation/Billing anomaly :-

 I was given a bill to clear by the administration desk amounting to  ` 1,99,794.00 (One Lakh ninety nine thousand seven hundred and ninety four) fair enough for high level of services health care provided I requested the attended to kindly issue me a break up the amount he did give me a break up (attached Exhibit (A)) this was a hand written bill when inquired for a print out he politely explained the print out can be obtained only after check due to operating system limitations!! what ever happened to “ A State of Art technology mentioned in you mission statement ???” a printout cannot be obtained for this amout of bill?? Because of  a system limitation? How am I as a customer responsible for this??? I pay over 200 thousand Rupee and get a hand printed break up?? Questions I leave up to your administration I was in no mood to discuss this as I needed the body of my mother to be shifted for the final rites , further more during the passing moments of my mother I had to run up and down to the pharmacy to get the medication I insisted on checking the medicines that were given to me with the ICU attendant upon physically checking along with the attendant I found out that few injections were not given and had to run back to the pharmacy for collection I did this although I knew my mother was passing to ensure no effort is sparred , well unfortunately I was not alone another patient was also issued a INCORRECT PRESCRIPTION Dosage (attached Exhibit –B ) a 600mg of zivator was prescribed to a patient who was along with me in the Pharmacy due to the presence of mind of the patients family member he pointed out to the ICU staff that his patient is prescribed 1gm of the dosage and not 600mg!!!!! the attendant convinently corrects the mistake as is evident in the attachment

                I Bring this to your notice in good faith and trust the instinct of administrators in truly providing world class health to the community and ensuring no life is lost due to negligence or sheer incompetence

                I am thankfull to the effort and services that are truly provided by your entity and trust all corrective actions are taken in pluging such uneventfully instances which are neither good for your entity or for patients and public who place their “Lives “ at your hand

Jai Hind

Tome Prazeres Sequeira

Bad Boys of Goa!- A Good Read (R>E>A>D-Shamefull )

4 March,2012

March 4, 2012

This is how our ministers made Goans look pathetic on national television
Sujay Gupta
Some of us may have seen this. And many of us, thankfully perhaps, missed it. In two separate national television channels last week, Goa’s ministers made a shameful mockery of themselves, their land, the positions they hold and most importantly the dignity of all Goans, by shamelessly defending the infusion of their children in to politics, their education, or the lack of it, and their sudden un-accounted for jump in wealth.
As the half an hour programme on NDTV unfolded (and another one on CNN IBN called the ‘Bad boys of Goa), it must have been jaw dropping entertainment for the rest of the country as Goa was ridiculed in every frame and byte. For an insider and a resident and lover of the land, your blood boiled. Sample these with my apologies for subjecting you to this on a Sunday morning. The only solace is that some of you would have done your bit the previous day towards not getting some of these.
Education Minister Babush Monseratte was asked by the NDTV reporter: Your affidavit shows that you have finished you schooling and then your 12th standard from Mohali. When did you give you exams in Mohali (Punjab)? Babush replied “I’ve given, I’ve given...I’ve also given exams for graduation. So in three months time you may find that I’m a graduate.” And then he laughed and all his hangers on laughed with him, applauded we know what – his sense of black humour or his enormous skill is acquiring degrees instantly. The rage in people is not due to the lack of education but acquiring degrees through suspicious means when you happen to be the education minister of a state.
The next line of questioning brought out even more. Monseratte was asked, “Your wealth and assets have jumped up five times. How do you account for this huge increase in your wealth?” Babush fumbled and stumbled and muttered something incoherently, which seemed like, ‘Ermmm, well it has increased....”, and then in a sudden flash of brilliance said, “My chartered accountant looks into all this, you better ask him.” The NDTV reporter persisted, “Surely you know how your wealth has increased, and there is an IT investigation showing that you received amounts for land conversions?” Babush replied again, “I don’t look into all these things, that is the job of the chartered accountant.”
Next up Churchill Alemao Asked why he was encouraging family raj by bringing baby daughter dearest intro politics and giving her a ticket, Churchill said “ When I was an MP, she used to say ‘daddy daddy, give me a pass to come to parliament.’ My friend, since then she has been interested, not now. May I’m encouraging, but what’s wrong?” When baby daughter dearest was asked on national television why the Congress didn’t find other suitable women candidates but only an Alemao, she turned to her supporters and asked who wanted her to contest and they all shouted in unison “We”. That settled Valanka walked into the night.
Cut to Joaquim Alemao and his reason for bringing Yuri into politics was perhaps the most innovative.  He told NDTV, “‘From the age of 14, when daddy (Joaquim) was not at home, he used to do the job. He knows everything. He has done lots of social service.” It’s a pity that Goa didn’t know about this young foot soldier of Joaquim’s, who knew about politics and business and controlled affairs from the age of 14. Daddy’s boy contested as an NCP candidate, as his daddy’s party made room for him in a friendly party, when the family quota was getting a little full. Asked about his properties and increase in wealth, Joaquims answer was simple, “I’m a businessman, not an ordinary man. I have business. Real estate business, other business.” They are surely not ordinary. Not by a long shot. We are ordinary. We work for a living, send our children to school and use our savings to see that they get a good education, we pay our taxes, we don’t attack police stations and burn them and injure policemen, we don’t get caught at airports  with huge amounts of cash by customs and get interrogated by the enforcement directorate,  we are not under the scanner of an anti mining commission for possibly indulging in blatant illegal mining, we don’t deal with builders asking for their money to be returned for land conversions, which have not happened and most importantly, we don’t sell our souls and our land.
Hopefully, we have done enough this time to get some ordinary people into the assembly. We are saddened, shocked and tired by ruling party ministers who are “not ordinary men”. For a change, we want the extra ordinary out. We want the ordinary in. Can we, for the first time in more than a decade, have some ordinary people, people like us, be our true representatives. In 48 hours we shall know if we have indeed been masters of our own destinies or slaves of compulsion and greed. Yet again!

Basic infrastructure for tourism top on Parulekar’s agenda

Well Glad to See that the Mr Parulekars Agenda is tourism 
Was there at the Goa Air Port on 14-April -2012 @ 00:30 Hrs the lounge was full with more than 500 passengers travelling and A/C Malfunctioning at the terminal
Questions we need to ask

1. Do we need to project this image of Goa at the very Entry /Exit Point -First Impression is Last Impression
2. Can we Afford to loose tourism to other neighbouring states ? When the main revenue generator for Goa is Tourism
3. Are we too Lax and take it for granted that Tourist will arrive International Or Local Irrespective of the infra Structure?

Hope the current Administration (In this case Hope is Not a Strategy!!) takes into stock this mamoth task left to them by their predecessors )

Another Goa SHINING Campaign by CEO Parrikar

Parrikar shuts down offensive Airtel television ad 2012-04-01 [BEVINDA COLLACO] And he's back! Manohar Parrikar rides again to get justice for Goa. He shut down the sleazy Airtel televsion ad showing Goa in a poor light. Not just the idea that Goa is the place to have one-night stands, but also that the women in question are thieves, who take everything except your Airtel phone. Which if you think about it, is really a stupid thing to put out on the small screen. It means that a prostitute-cum-thief will find sufficient value in some loser's clothes, wallet, underwear too, enough to warrant stealing those items, but his cellphone with an Airtel SIM card? Uh-huh, no value in that at all. Leave it, with the piece of trash in the tent.  The Facebook community especially the Group Ami Niz Goenkar was spitting mad over this new image of Goa getting currency through the mass media. The ad was about a man draped in a small towel sitting on a beach in Goa next to a small tent and calling his friend back home to say that his one-night-stand had robbed his money and his clothes and left. His friend transfers a small sum to him telling him to have a drink and chill, he would be flying to Goa. And the towel clad loser is wreathed in smiles and calls for a drink. There were calls to boycott Airtel. This website sent scornful emails to the top management of BhartiAirtel, even posted vicious comments on their Facebook page. The Airtel boycott not surprisingly, did not happen, because we Goans are good with shouting from our keyboards which have taken the place of balcaos, but hasten slowly to take action which doesn't really hit us personally. Even the plan to gherao the Airtel office in Patto Plaza, Panjim did not fructify. But The Parrikar made a call. Just one call to the top management of BhartiAirtel. He made them an offer they could not refuse. The ad was in bad taste, if you don't do something about it, I will is what Parrikar is reported to have said. BhartiAirtel has immediately withdrawn the ad, has tendered an apology to Goans, which we have not yet read or heard and will remove all references to Goa. But then the ad film is shot in Goa, so they will have to change that too, won't they? Then again, how did we get this reputation? Clearly the advertising fraternity on their many "conferences" and junkets to Goa gravitate to the sleazy underbelly of this sunshine state. Decisions made in the last 20 years have been leading up to this point. Easy availability of narcotics, and it's sister vices - gambling and prostitution have turned Goa into the Airtel ad. It's time we cleaned up our state, and got rid of all three on a war footing. Raise the entry fee to casinos, both off shore and on-shore to Rs 2000 again, quadruple the annual license fee and push the off-shore casinos out into the open sea. Clean up the police force and give them the freedom to sort out the rest. Then even the thought of a one-night-stand-turned-ugly television ad will not enter the tiny minds of our advertising "professionals".

Top -10 Candidates by Vote Density

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Matnahy was a path breaker, says CM

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GOANEWS DESK, PANAJI | 21 March 2012 11:27 IST

 

Matanhy at a public meet (Photo Courtesy: Rajan Parrikar)

“Matanhy Saldhana was a path breaker, a man with principles and a true honest Goan with traditional values. His death is a major loss to the state and personal loss to him”, said chief minister Manohar Parrikar while paying homage to him.

Tourism minister Saldhana died of a massive heart attack today early morning. He was sworn in as his cabinet colleague on 9 March.
In his condolence message, Parrikar said: Saldhana was a leader of the masses in true sense of the term. He rose in Goan social field as a champion of Ramponkar and throughout his life worked for their upliftment. He was the beacon of weaker section of the society, who looked upon him as a saviour to mitigate their sufferings.
The chief minister further said in the death of Saldhana, Goa has lost a great leader who had big concern for the welfare of the people.
His death has caused irreparable loss for the future of Goa and it is difficult to fill the void created by his death, he added.

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"The Battle for Panjim -Begins!!!"

The countdown for Panjim begins courtesy TARGET NEWS 2011-03-01 [ Bevinda Collaco ] The picture is clear now. There are two main groups vying for control of Panjim the capital of the state. The Monserrate Camp is fielding a candidate in every one of the 30 wards of Panjim. The BJP is fielding candidates in 29 wards and will be supporting Oscar da Cunha in the thirtieth, which is Ward 26. My ward. And playing spoilsport is the Nationalist Congress Party or Mickky’s Camp which will split the votes. Residents of Panjim will go to the polls to cast their votes on March 13. As the countdown begins to determining the fate of the fair city of Panjim, activists, heritage activists and residents with no agenda except a deep love and appreciation for their city are a worried lot. HERITAGE IS PANJIM'S USP but this may go if Monserrate gets control of CCP again As cities go, Panjim hardly qualifies as a city. It is a picturesque town. Blessed with water on all sides and joined to the mainland by modern and old bridges and a 400-year-old causeway the town rises gently from the river banks, the beaches and the salt flats to the hillock of Altinho. This was a planned city built when the overcrowded, ill planned Old Goa fell to the plague and the Portuguese colonial rulers decided to build their new plague free capital at Panjim the land that never floods. Today the ills that plague the city are legendary. Illegal constructions on steep slopes have caused havoc with landslides all around. The illegal constructions have over the years been encouraged by local councilors trying to woo their supporters. In Mala area for instance, residents swear by Rudresh Chodankar, since he always “helped” them out to get the necessary permits etc from the CCP for any “additions” they needed. The additions were often entire new annexes to their original houses or another floor. POPULAR NO MATTER WHAT or who Rudresh Chodankar joins Rudresh himself has pulled down his ground floor cottage in the hallowed heritage precinct of Fontainhas-Mala and has built a two-storeyed monster structure in its place. Illegal? Nah, it must be completely legal, with all required permits and licences of the CCP in place. Last year Rudresh was in the Opposition. Today he has joined the Monserrate Camp, the very same policies of which he condemned loudly and continuously at every meeting of the CCP. MASTERLY INACTIVITY Avinash Bhonsle Avinash Bhonsle who is generating the maximum noise in these elections will go down in history as the most useless councilor to ever darken the doors of Ward 26. He made an appearance in the ward on one day and one day only, the day he came around asking for votes. After he was elected, Bhonsle was never to be seen again in the ward. The weeds grew thick, the stepped street was breaking in parts, people were falling in the darkness and injuring themselves. Finally, the locals, including this writer, got the work done by the simple expedient of calling the Comissioner, the Mayor and the engineer allotted to the area. Ward 26 used to be one of the best looking wards in the city. Now it’s a sorry mess. The worry is not who will sweep our streets and collect our carefully segregated waste. The worry is that if the Monserrate Camp is given one more stab at running the CCP, the city of Panjim is doomed. Beautiful old structures will be pulled down to make way for broad roads, for multi-storeyed parking, for new buildings, all good in their own way some would say, but in the process changing not just the face of the city, but also changing a way of life that was the envy of all. HIS WISH IS EVERYONE'S COMMAND Babush Monserrate wants Panaji While the Monserrate Camp may have some fine upright individuals standing in several wards, it will still be Babush Monserrate who will make the major decisions. After the last elections he summoned all his winning candidates to his house in Taleigao and summoned the Commissioner too. He gave them a stern lecture where he laid down the bottom line. The CCP was his and it would be run according to his rules. And that is the way the CCP worked with the few members of the Opposition screaming themselves hoarse at every meeting. The one hope is Ashok Naik who has come back to contest even though he says he is keeping poor health. Ashok Naik was Chairperson and then Mayor before and during the cusp period when Panjim Municipal Corporation turned into the City of the Corporation of Panaji. That was Manohar Parrikar’s brainwave that backfired on the city in a really terrible way. From 12 wards, the city was divided into 30 wards was supposed to extend to Porvorim, Ribandar, Santa Cruz and Taleigao. Taleigao, Porvorim and SantaCruz refused the dubious honour but the 30 wards stayed and 30 completely unnecessary individuals ignored Panjim city and concentrated on “developing” Caranzalem and Taleigao where Monserrate had building interests. We have huge building complexes in this developed area, but no sewerage system. ABLE MAYOR, appreciated by opposition councillors too Ashok Naik was arguably the best Mayor the city has seen. Panjim looked her best during his tenure. His success lay in his ability to hand out funds for development without partiality. Unlike the present dispensation where the Monserrate panel made certain funds were utilized in their wards alone. The city has suffered and only the looming elections and maybe a sense of deep shame got the Panjim city garden completed. Stories of gifts being distributed have already started making the rounds. There is one set of comments on Facebook about a journalist who has received remuneration in six figures to present the candidates of one group in a good light. There are moves to expose him, so the days to come should be interesting with all this drama on the sidelines.

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The 'M' factor

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The BJP –MGP alliance, natural beneficiaries of this Hiroshima like nuclear bomb on the Cong–NCP must however remember that this decisive mandate for change can never be read as a mandate for the poisonous ideology of “Hindutwa”. That should not just be on the back burner. It should be burnt to ashes preferably as soon as possible.

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Well! Well! Well! Elections 2012 are dusted and over. The  dynasties have  been comprehensively defanged.  People’s  power  “silently” overthrew a dastardly corrupt regime. Democracy blushed with pride and may be, just may be, we can see the sunlight peeping out from the dark clouds that hovered above us.
Will and importantly can Goa still be saved?
I don’t  know, but the first firm step has decisively been taken by the Goan electorate. The road gets far more treacherous and slippery now on, but walk on it, together we must.
For starters let’s analyse how the Congress-NCP cookie crumbled. Under its own weight!
Forget about individual, bullying satraps; pillaging dynasties and the razzle dazzle of filthy lucre (admittedly all alliances in the fray are guilty of this misdemeanor).
The Congress leaders will assemble together for their “chintan  baithak” (When did the Congress in Goa  do a genuine  “ think “ fest over the last 30 years?). They will probably deflect the blame for their ignominious debacle on padres, people and the press. And chances are that they will never read the gigantic writing on the wall. The obvious reason why  they ended up in the dog house.
And there’s one and only one reason why the “secular” Congress was upstaged by the “ communal” BJP and others in the pack.
And the reason is this: The Cong–NCP sought to brazenly insult the dignity and the intelligence of the Goan voter. Viciously maliciously and Relentlessly !
They had reached the forgone conclusion that every Goan voter was up for sale and they did their deals, as if our land was one giant ugly bazaar.
Everyone I meet today tells me the same story; that they may have partaken of the Congress banquet laid out over the last campaigning month (which was in any case at tax payer’s cost) but they entered the polling booth with only one thought in their mind, which was to teach the Cong-NCP alliance an unforgettable and unforgiving  lesson.
How a battered wife smiles through the sexual assault but one day picks up the sledge hammer, and smashes her husband’s head to drive the point home!
True a lot of decent, upright Goans continue to vote Congress but purely  because they treasure the wonderful ideology that the Congress party otherwise espouses.
The BJP –MGP alliance, natural beneficiaries of this Hiroshima like nuclear bomb on the Cong–NCP must however remember that this decisive mandate for change can never be read as a mandate for the poisonous ideology of “Hindutwa”. That should not just be on the back burner. It should be burnt to ashes preferably as soon as possible.
The people of Goa were convinced that anyone else but the Congress–NCP could help them turn the corner on the downhill Road to Hell that we were all descending on. Hence the mandate.
Unsolicited as it will be, I offer my two penny’s worth of advice to the now governing alliance of the BJP-MGP. My “saat shapottam”
(1) After the initial euphoria, fireworks and open air swearing-ins, Maintain silence and get on with the job. Let your actions speak louder than your words.
(2) Get everyone – everyone - to follow the Law!! Don’t get into hot pursuit of the small fry. Go after the big sharks through a comprehensive system of justice and accountability like the Lokayukta (tough since many of the big sharks have also financed the BJP-MGP). Also the Law must apply to “Hindutwa” hotheads as firmly as for anyone else if they decide to go on one of their jolly rampages.
(3) Never allow private profit to overrule the greater public good, however powerful the private profit racketeer may seem
(4) Make environment protection, a non-negotiable instrument of governance but make people comprehend that economic growth is not possible if every second coconut tree is to be saved.
(5)Do not unnecessarily antagonize the media. Listen and listen very hard to all well-meaning critics and ignore, completely ignore, the abusive ones.
(6) Do not make individual, arbitrary decisions. Take collective ones. You may have to share the credits but you also get to share the blame.
(7) Good governance is always about systems, systems and systems. Democracy is always about justice, justice and justice.
We in Goa would do well to remember this;
Conventional wisdom tells us that there are three “M”s that  win you an Election: Money power, Muscle power and Media power.   Many who voted BJP-MGP this time round, voted perhaps with an eye also on the 4^th “M” – Manohar (certainly not Azgaonkar ).
But I strongly believe that it was the fifth “M” that turned the tide and tilted the balance this Election 2012. To make that humungous difference.
The fifth “M” was this: THE MORAL POWER OF THE GOAN. Brilliant; Luminescent and Triumphant.
And it is this that must never, never be betrayed. Or there will be a price to pay, a very heavy one!
Take a bow Goa!! For now it seems we can breathe easy again. We’ll  review the situation six months from now.

Mr Alemao Convinced on EVM being Rigged