Doctor’s Day is specifically meant to celebrate and thank Doctors for their selfless service who are demigods for most of us. Vaidyo Narayano Hari is one famous sayings about Doctors that describes how well they are considered as Gods in our country.
The celebration of the Doctors’ Day is an attempt to emphasize on the value of doctors in our lives and to offer them our respects by commemorating one of their greatest representatives. India has shown remarkable improvements in the medical field and July 1 pays a perfect tribute to all the doctors who have made relentless efforts towards achieving this goal irrespective of the odds.
Global Celebration of Doctors day!
It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world. The date may vary from nation to nation depending on the event of commemoration used to mark the day
INDIA:
In India the National Doctors’ Day is celebrated on July 1 all across India to honor the legendary physician and the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy. He was born on July 1, 1882 and died on the same date in 1962, aged 80 years. Dr Roy was honored with the country’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna on February 4, 1961.
USA:
In the United States, National Doctors’ Day is a day on which the service of physicians to the nation is recognized annually. The idea came from Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond, and the date chosen was the anniversary of the first use of general anesthesia in surgery. On March 30, 1842, in Jefferson, Georgia, Dr. Crawford Long used ether to anesthetize a patient, James Venable, and painlessly excised a tumor from his neck
Iran
In Iran, Avicenna’s birthday (Iranian Month:Shahrivar 1st=August 23) is commemorated as the national day for doctors.
Brazil
Celebrated as a holiday on October 18, the day on which the Catholic Church celebrates the birthday of Saint Luke.
Canada
National Doctors Day is celebrated in Canada on May 1.
Cuba
In Cuba, National Doctors’ Day is celebrated as a holiday on December 3 to commemorate the birthday of Carlos Juan Finlay. Carlos J. Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 6, 1915) was a Cuban physician and scientist recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research. He was the first to theorize, in 1881, that a mosquito was a carrier, now known as a disease vector, of the organism causing yellow fever: a mosquito that bites a victim of the disease could subsequently bite and thereby infect a healthy person.
Malaysia
In Malaysia, Doctors Day is celebrated on the 10th of October every year.
National Doctors Day Celebration : How to Celebrate
On the 1st of July patients greet their doctors by distributing greeting cards, appreciation cards, giving them bunch of flowers or bouquets, greeting messages through the mails and etc. It is being celebrated for years by the government and non-government healthcare organizations in order to get familiar with the doctors contributions. Staff of the healthcare organizations organizes variety of events and activities for the campaign celebration.
National Doctors’ Day 2021 Theme: Save The Saviours
Being trapped in the uncomfortable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for hours every day, treating COVID and non-COVID patients, taking online consultation, dealing with the shortage of medical supplies and staff, keeping up with everyday developments in the field of COVID-19 research, the pandemic has been hard on the doctors. During this long fight with COVID, the country has lost over 1,500 doctors to the pandemic, according to IMA. This includes 736 doctors during the first wave and 798 doctors since the first week of April till June 29. The highest number of deaths among doctors have been reported from Delhi (128), followed by Bihar (115). It is important to note here that the actual figure related to death of doctors during COVID-19 may be higher as IMA only keeps a record of its 3.27 lakh members. With an aim to dedicate the day to the doctors who succumbed to COVIID – 19, the theme of the day this year is ‘Save The Saviours’.
Attacks on Doctors:
Unfortunately people have very high expectations on Doctors and come to a stage that they feel all diseases can be cured. With the latest technological advances in recent times the doctors are able to treat diseases more successfully but sadly there are instances where doctors could not save the patients in spite of their best efforts.
Their could be many reasons for the failure, due to the condition of the patient when he was brought to the doctor, or age of the patient or other constitutional factors or coincidental chronic illness or the incurable nature of the disease or due to the limited knowledge and skill of the doctor – the doctor is held responsible for the failure. It is but natural that when the patients die their relations and friends are profoundly upset and in their distress hold the doctors responsible for the result and treat the doctors as devils.
Recently one incident happened in West Bengal that shook the entire nation. On June 11, 2019, a furious mob of 200 assaulted and seriously wounded Dr. Paribaha Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Yash Tekwani at NRS Medical College Hospital, Kolkata. The result of the gruesome attack by an angry mob on the young Dr. Mukhopadhyay — a skull fracture — are there for all to see on the internet.
“He had suffered acute cardiac arrest and in the evening the patient developed arrhythmia or irregular heart beats. Several injections were administered but he died,” a junior doctor said.
“Soon after the relatives were told about the death, they started abusing our colleagues and alleged negligence in treatment. Three of them entered the ward and pushed the female interns.”
The three persons who pushed and abused the interns went away.
“When the relatives returned to take away the body, my colleagues demanded an apology from the three who had assaulted them,” a doctor said.
Two persons with the relatives apologized but they were not the ones who had assaulted the doctors. The doctors stuck to their demand and a small team of cops arrived from the outpost on the campus.
“The relatives are alleging we did not allow them to take the body away but that is not true. The body was sent for postmortem because they alleged negligence,” another junior doctor said. “While leaving, the assaulters threatened that the doctors would be thrashed again later.”
These unfortunate events are happening in many places around the globe. The government should punish unlawful behavior of anybody who harms the doctor and vandalizes the hospital. In the same way if Doctors were found guilty in treating (pure negligence) or Hospitals find cheating the patients by taking advantage of their helpless situations, they should be severely punished as well.
On the occasion of Doctors Day, WorthvieW wants to let you know how much we respect and appreciate your sincere commitments to provide quality care to your patients every day.
Long Live Doctors!
