Pratap Bhogilal Journey Through Life

Author(s): Rauf Ahmed
Publisher: Bhupendra Singh Anand

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I felt I would get confused, ultimately after her persistence, I went and consulted Dr. Panda and after talking to him for about an hour and more and having been highly impressed by him, I finally decided to have the operation done at Asian Heart and I am glad I did that.
Here also I would like to mention that Dr. Panda had warned me about the high risk and that I might have to spend a couple of days more in the ICU and then at the hospital room for a couple of days more than normal. He even charged me on this basis, but since I recovered normally and did not have to spend more days as he had envisaged, the hospital refunded over Rs. 40,000/- to me - quite exceptional in India.
I was so impressed by Dr. Panda, the hospital and its highly professional and efficient treatment and by this gesture of refund, that I asked Dr. Panda whether he wanted any financial help (the hospital then being only around 1/2 years old and was making losses). He responded saying help was always welcome. As such I donated to the hospital without any conditions. He accepted the donation, but he also graciously named the library in the hospital in Bhagwati's name and also gave me some equity shares in the hospital and also balance was utilised for the hospital Pediatric Heart Division.
However, in 2007 I had low fever for about a month and our G.P. Dr. Dilip Sampat and our chest physician Dr. Jamshed Soonawala thought it would be better to have a general physician consultant to check me and see whether he could lay hands on any problem. As such, Dr. Ramamurthy was called in and he detected that there was a tumour in the colon. I was advised to do a biopsy and the result was detection of Cancer and that an operation would have to be undertaken. As such, I consulted Dr. Praful Desai and he asked me to get biopsy done at Breach Candy Hospital. However, the biopsy could not be done by Dr. Sharad Shah at Breach Candy Hospital and he closed the biopsy process. Dr. Desai insisted that the operation should be done and though my family members were against it, since I still had low fever. I decided to have the operation at Breach Candy Hospital and in fact reserved a room at the Annexe and I entered the hospital for admission. While Sheela was making the deposit
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