“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of
probability”. —William Osler.
This quote sums up the life of a doctor
pretty accurately. Of course every day is a different day for a doctor with new
and unanticipated forthcomings.
Dr. Rehana- a beacon of light, a
gynecologist at HOPE- a charitable organization
in Pakistan, who has well deserved the title of a doctor with her hard
work and unyielding effort. Her Duties include seeing gynae patients, attending
to the problems and diagnosing hurdles created in pregnancy etc. Her day starts off with ultrasounds carried
out at Bilal Colony- a maternal and child health community center.
Bilal Colony has a population of 80,000 and
incurs as many as 2200 mothers and children every month. Dr. Rehana Visits this
center twice a week for ultrasounds and deliveries.
Dr. Rehana then travels to Gurumandir
Hospital where she is called in for an emergency cesarean operation. It takes
her in total one hour to reach Gurumandir Hospital as the total distance
between them in 26.9km. Dr. Rehana expertly conducts c-sections
and lovely babies are born.
Dr. Rehana is part of the administration at
Gurumandir Hospital and so she has to see to the staff, patients, and medicines
and fulfil other admin related duties. Here she takes a lunch break and rests
for a while but as they say the clock never stops ticking for a doctor and so
she is then paged in for a threatened abortion at Zia Colony where the case is
very severe and the patient is losing a lot of blood, after rushing the patient
to the Operation Theater, Dr. Rehana arranges for the blood and successfully
saves the patient’s life.
The distance from HOPE Hospital Gurumandir
to Zia colony is about 8-9 km.
HOPE- an
NGO in Pakistan runs two Mobile Health Clinics (MHU) which are overseen by
Dr. Rehana. MHU's provide free medication and treatment to the underserved
population suffering from various diseases. Dr. Rehana engages in a meeting
regarding the MHU’s where the Doctors discus several patient related problems,
solutions and processes.
Dr. Rehana see’s to the OPD which is the
part of a hospital designed for the treatment of outpatients, people with
health problems who visit the hospital for diagnosis or treatment, at Zia Colony Hospital at 7:30pm and then
commutes back to Gurumandir Hospital to see the OPD at 10:00 pm where she
carries out consultancy, nutrition advice, family planning awareness, and sees to
other pregnancy related complications. She then returns to Zia Colony by 11:30pm
where she is on night duty. Dr. Rehana devotes all her time to her work by
going without sleep for incredibly long hours.
This is how it’s like to be a
practicing doctor. It’s hard to describe one day because every day is very
different. As long as doctors come equipped with a great attitude,
there is excitement with many opportunities to learn and develop
their clinical skills.
Dr.
Mubina Agboatwalla- a child specialist in Karachi, feels honored to
have such hardworking staff members as Dr. Rehana, who are inspiration and an
epitome of perfection.
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