MANGALURU: A naturopathic physician in Guruvayankere at Belthangady taluk, that supplies free consultation, visits about 100 patients per day and was speaking individuals with Covid-like symptoms into the district hospital for treatment and tests. Though Venugopala Sharma, 56, doesn’t charge a consultation fee, sailors around lovingly call him that the’Rs 10 physician’ since this will be the fee a few of these cover consultation. Dr Sharma was practicing for over 30 decades and state his clinic has burgeoned. “I started urinating in Belthangady in 1989 after completing the Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery degree from Udupi Ayurveda College,” said Dr Sharma. “I never mended an appointment fee, however some patients utilized to pay Rs two originally. I was known then as the’Rs two physician’. From that point, patients started calling me’Rs doctor’ and they call me’Rs 10 physician’.” Dr Sharma says that he does not bill for BP along with other standard evaluations, but folks must cover medication. “I believe in simple living and drew inspiration in the late night PS Shastri out of Kasaragod who happened to be our family physician during my youth days. Late Dr VS Acharya, former minister, was also an inspiration,” he explained. The professional sees a mean of 100 patients daily. He made a document by visiting 247 patients each day in about a decade back. He’s got no helpers to help him. There’s absolutely not any time board fixed in the Chikitsa practice and occasionally that he leaves his practice for lunch at 3pm after viewing all of the patients. “Throughout the Covid-19-induced nationally lockdown this past year, I had been at home for almost 41 days. I felt that should soldiers are still battling for the country and not concerned about passing, why should physicians detract from practices remain in the home. I’d get Covid this past year and my household was infected. We all were at house isolation except my mom, who had been treated in a private hospital at Mangaluru. The next wave was somewhat unkind,” he explained. Dr Sharma claims that patients using influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory disease (SARI) must experience RT-PCR evaluation and people who test positive have been known to the hospital for additional therapy. “There’s still a stigma attached to Covid,” Dr Sharma said. “I’ve observed that 90 percent of patients going to the practice with fever test positive to the illness ”