It is for the government probe to decide whether the 16 year old Raveena Rodrigues died due to medical negligence. I have known the doctor in question, Dr. Dilip Amonkar for over three decades. He is very knowledgeable and a surgeon with expertise. I have known him to be extremely humble, soft spoken and with a caring personality. Over the years he has always been very helpful whenever I have sought his assistance for patients in need of medical treatment. A gentleman to the core, Dr. Dilip Amonkar is definitely not someone who would stake his credibility for monetary gains.
The policy of barring Government doctors from private practice will have to be reviewed by the government. Goa Medical College may lose some of its talented doctors if this rule is enforced. Maybe doctors wishing to have private practice should be asked to surrender the “Non practicing allowance". The government needs to resolve the issue by finding a consensus after taking the doctors into confidence. The doctor at least makes some extra money caring for the patients whereas the politicians heartlessly amass wealth at the cost of the public they were elected by and are paid to serve. If our Advocate General who is India’s highest paid AG and other Government advocates can have their private practice why can doctors not be allowed to attend to private patients after office hours? Aires Rodrigues T1 - B30, Ribandar Retreat Ribandar - Goa - 403006 Mobile: 9822684372 * * * How were the 1950s, East African Goans and British Overseas Citizenship linked? Which Kenyan-Goan was one of the world fastest sprinters in the 1960s? What did the 1878 London-Lisbon treaty mean to Goa? Find your answers in Selma Carvalho's *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Buy from Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
