Recently two news items have been viral in social as well as general media about medical proffessionals and their humanitarian service. Dr Govind Nandakumar, surgical gastroenterologist ,was stuck in heavy traffic in Benguluru and was worried for getting trapped in the traffic as he has to attend to an emergency gallbladder surgery in his hospital. Thinking about emergency surgery  and the agony of patient, just left the car with driver and started running on the road for three KMs and reached hospital as his staff and assistants waiting for him to start surgery. Even with a such a strain on running three KMs ,he began surgery  with cool mind and it was successful. Many compliments to the doctor in social media for his duty mindedness

In another great service ,an house surgeon of Gitam Medical College,Dr Swathi Reddy was travelling in Durantho express from Vijayawada to Vishakhapatnam. Some one woke her up requesting to help his wife with sudden labour pains as she was going to native place for delivery. Without any second though she went to the pregnant woman and delivered a baby within no time as pains were more. Both mother and infant were safe and shifted to a hospital at next halt of train. Parents of infant  thanked profusely for the emergency help. Infact the  husband of the pregnant woman was not aware that she was a doctor but it was a divine call for the service. As she got good experience on deliveries in her internship ,it was easy for her. Most appreciable part is ,she conducted delivery without any instruments and assistance and it was just one doctor service. All complimented her for great human touch in emergency in a running train. Her confidence in delivery without instruments made it successful.

Two months ago ,Dr Tamilsai Soundararajan, Governor of Telangana and Puducherry ,while travelling in a flight had performed First Aid to a co passenger suffering from chest pain and relieved the pain. The passenger was a state officer and thanked Governor recently for timely help.

All these incidents show how medical proffessionals render service in emergencies just on a call without any second thought and try their best to relieve the suffering and save life till the person reaches the hospital. It is not only a great human touch but a divine touch too as the beneficiaries feel. At that crucial time every one around feel doctor’s service in time is just divine as life is precious to all , the doctors in particular as they are the first persons to feel happy and joyful as their services yielded fruitful results making all happy. The above incidents are just tip of iceberg as many such incidents of human touch are seen now and then. Are such incidents of service not enough to call doctors “Vydyo Narayana Hari”?

Dr JP Reddy,Nalgonda,