https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv9jDIKKUBg
Even now – sixteen months into the COVID-19 Pandemic in India
– this video should be compulsory viewing for:
1. Ministers in the Union Cabinet including the PM
2. ICMR Director General
3. AIIMS Director
4. Corporate Press
5. Section of the
bureaucracy dealing with matters of health and home affairs
There should be no hesitation if the PMO invites over Dr. Mathew
Varghese and puts any relevant questions which could have a bearing on
treatment and financial resources, nay a fundamental quantum shift in the
treatment policy.
Personally the undersigned stands humbled; after having written
eighteen articles in Countercurrents.org in 2020 (individually
and co-authored with Shobha Aggarwal), I had erroneously thought that it was
pneumonia in the lungs. Now Dr. Mathew Varghese has clarified that it is blood
clots in the lungs.
I have had the privilege of working with Mathew Varghese in 1980
at LNJPN hospital and later as part of the ABVA Collective. He is wedded and
welded to his professional work with a missionary zeal often using a chunk of
his pay for the welfare of the poor.
Why Dr. Mathew
Varghese reminds me of Hugh Owen Thomas
Dr. Mathew Varghese has been involved in slum work right
since the 1980s (apart from work in government/private hospitals). Presently at
the polio ward, St. Stephen’s hospital, New Delhi – his very own brain child –
one could see him examining patients with “a hammer in his hands to check the limb
reflexes, a tape to measure the length of hands and legs and a goniometer to
ensure precise measurement of angles…”; Thomas in his times carried a wrench in
his apron pocket to fix the fractures!
Hugh
Owen Thomas was a general practitioner in
the slums of Liverpool most of his professional life, treating the poor rather
than the affluent Victorian middle classes. He concerned himself primarily with
orthopaedic surgery, and is considered the founder of orthopedic surgery in
Britain.
His practice was so busy that he started his rounds at five
or six in the morning and never left his home for other than professional
purposes. The only exception to this were the three times a year when he
visited his mother's grave.
Thomas would designate Sunday as his "free day",
when hundreds of patients from all over the countryside besieged Nelson Street
in the morning, filling the house to overflowing and the surrounding streets
with carriages and invalid chairs.
(Extracted from: https://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2947.html)
P. S. Sahni
(Why I have dropped prefix Dr. from my name see http://aidsbhedbhavvirodhiandolan.blogspot.com/2021/05/covid-19-pandemic-india-need-citizens.html)