A day in the life of Dr. Rehana – A Gynecologist

KARACHI, Pakistan - April 6, 2018 - PRLog -- "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 (http://hope-ngo.com/), 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- a Health NGO in Pakistan (http://hope-ngo.com/) 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 (http://www.drmubinaagboatwalla.com/), feels honored to have such hardworking staff members as Dr. Rehana, who are inspiration and an epitome of perfection.