Akash, a businessman from Ponda, Goa, had been feeling down for a few days. However he ignored it due to his busy schedule. One day, while working from the office, he collapsed suddenly and had to be rushed to a hospital. Upon reaching Savaikar Hospital, the doctors knew Akash must be shifted to the Intensive […]
23-year-old Rashmi always had a healthy lifestyle. As a young volleyball player, she kept herself active and enjoyed her time on the field. A few weeks back, she returned home from her practice and felt a sudden pain in the stomach. She thought it was a muscle cramp, and continued with her everyday chores. But […]
Haemorrhoids, better known as piles, are not just physically painful but can often bring a lot of anxiety. Most people, especially women find it rather embarrassing to discuss it, leave alone consulting a doctor. The same happened with 36-year-old Vanita Naik. Vanitha is a homemaker, from the past few years she had been having some […]
While 26-year-old Suneel had been a cab driver for 3 years, of late he started to feel pain in his natal area when sitting. Initially, he thought that it was a boil/ pimple that had developed near his buttocks, but the pain slowly seemed to be growing. A week later when he visited Savaikar Hospital, he […]
The chief anesthetist at Savaikar Hospital, Goa, shares her experience of intubating a man with a tilted windpipe. About 4 in every 100,000 people have neck movement restriction, a condition that causes the neck to stiffen and arch forward. Manoj Joshi, 53, who lives in Goa, is one of them, and he has had it since […]
Staff writer | GDCS 28 Oct, Goa For two months Shekhar Mayekar was fed on antibiotics to calm the inflammation in his gall bladder. When the pain and distress continued to mount, he took his discharge from the Mumbai hospital where he was admitted, and moved to Ponda in Goa to see Dr. Pralhad Savaikar. Today, […]