Veteran internist, Dr. Ramsundar Doobay, MBBS, MRCP who spent nearly his entire career working at the Georgetown Public Hospital, passed away yesterday and the local medical fraternity has hailed him as a “hero”.
He was 82 years old and had been ailing for some time.
“Dr. Ramsundar Doobay was a fixture at the GPHC for more than fifty years. One of the unforgettable images, I am sure, in many persons’ memory of the GPHC is walking into the medical wards and seeing a simple, unassuming man finding a corner of a patient’s bed to tuck himself in. There he was, sitting, talking to the patient, assuring that patient and teaching doctors,” Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony told Stabroek News yesterday.