Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth honoured the Corona warrior doctors at the IMA Auditorium in Ranchi on Sunday. About 125 leading doctors of all the hospitals in the Capital city were honoured in the programme, two doctors from Ranchi who died of corona, Dr. S K Paul and Dr. Suresh Prasad, were first paid floral tributes and a 2-minute silence was observed for peace to their souls.

The event was chaired by Dr. GD Banerjee, President of IMA, and the guests were welcomed by Dr. Sambhu Singh, Secretary, IMA, Jharkhand. Seth honoured all the doctors by offering roses and shawls.

The doctors were from various hospitals including RIMS, Sadar Hospital, NRHM Namkum, Medanta Hospital, Medica Hospital, Alam Nursing Home, Paras Hospital, Rampyari Hospital, Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital, Samford Hospital, Orchid Hospital, Centevita Hospital, Seva Sadan Hospital, Dev Kamal Hospital, Guru Nanak Hospital, Raj Hospital, Gandhinagar Hospital.

The young doctor of Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital, Dr. Bibhuti Kashyap, who was felicitated by the MP, maintained the emergency service of the hospital 24 hours a day during the epidemic.

He not only saw the patients but also operated on the children, youth and elderly who came for emergency service from far flung areas of the entire Jharkhand and returned light to their eyes. If they were not treated at the right time, their eyesight would have gone forever.

At this time the private pathological labs did not have the facility of Covid 19 test. Without waiting for the test he performed the operations and saved the eyesight of all the patients by risking his life. If those patients were sent to the government hospital for examination of Covid 19, they might have lost their vision due to delay in surgery.

Dr. Bibhuti Kashyap is trained in AIIMS, New Delhi and holds an international degree of FRCS and ICO in vitro retina and cataract surgeon. He saved the light of the eyes of those who suffered injury in lockdown whose lens was damaged and moved from its place. Apart from this, the curtains of prematurely born newborns were also treated, who were suffering from a fatal disease called Retinopathy of

 Prematurity.

Dr. Nidhi Gadkar Kashyap, who was also felicitated by the MP, holds an international degree of cornea transplant specialist from FRCS, ICO. She saved the eyesight of many such children who injured themselves by playing with bow and arrow after watching the serial characters in the lockdown. Dr. Nidhi then performed a complex operation of the damaged cornea and saved their eyesight.

On this occasion, the Ranchi MP said that the readiness with which Dr, nurse, medical staff, working in this corona epidemic saved the lives of the people, irrespective of their lives, their debt can never be repaid. “In reality the doctor on earth is another form of God, who is going to give new life to the people on earth.

I also salute your parents who made you Doctors to serve the people. Today the people of India are safe from this epidemic. It is because of all you. Your service debt can never be repaid, but my duty is to honour you,” he said.