'Doctor wale babu mera treatment kara dey' song shot inside the hospital's ICU is a hit on social media.
Doctors and nurses of Manipal Hospital's ICU dancing in the video. (Linkedln)
Dr Sunil Karanth has practiced as an intensivist for more than 10 years, treating patients in Critical Care and Intensive Care Units. That doesn’t mean he can’t shake a leg like a Bollywood star. That goes for other senior doctors and nurses at ICU units of Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru.
They can be seen raising the roof and dropping into a beat effortlessly, to tell their side of the story, of the demands and rewards of helping people in their most critical time of need.
The video, which has been dubbed as ‘Doctor Wale Babu’ and was clearly shot using professional cameras inside the Manipal Hospital’s ICU unit, was released on Wednesday, 3 August, on the hospital’s YouTube and LinkedIn platforms.
Dr Sunil Karanth and others seen dancing. (Linkdln)
“In a whimsical, Bollywood-inspired take on the working of an ICU. Manipal Hospitals’ Old Airport Road’s ICU Doctors left us all in fits of laughter as they put up a stellar musical dance performance to a hilarious parodied version of a popular filmy track (sic),” said the Manipal Hospital’s handle Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt Ltd.
The doctors, nurses and even the security guards of the ICUs were seen in their uniforms dancing to the parodied version of super hit Baadshah’s “DJ waley babu mera gana chala do”. The lyrics, according to the hospital, were written by the doctors themselves.
The lyrics in Hindi speak of how reassuring the doctors at the ICU units are to the patients, and how they would want to ensure a lesser stay inside the ICUs.
“Jee bhar ke naach le kyunki abhi nahi tu danger mein… yaar jo tera ICU doctor baitha hain yahin baju mein,” says one of the lines to which Dr Karanth, chairman and intensivist of the CCU, can be seen dancing.
As soon as the video was up on both the platforms there were multiple shares and several likes. While most people from other healthcare platforms and doctors themselves appreciated the effort to boost the morale of fellow doctors and patients through the video, there were a few who criticised it, calling it “insensitive”.
“This video is a brilliant effort to lighten-up the otherwise grim mood of going to a hospital and the emotions associated with it. Involving the staff — many of whom I recognise — is such a great morale booster. I empathise with the people who may feel offended by the video, and I urge them to think about the intent. We need more such morale boosters, mood lighteners, and fun interactions,” said a comment on Linkedln by Bharat Monteiro, an intrapreuneur who is US based and works in the healthcare industry.
Another viewer, Dr Aishwarya Kharade, program associate at UniversiteitMaastricht Global Health, in her comment said, “Reminds me of the Harvard Medical School and HSDM student parodies,”
However, Shakun Midha, photographer from Haryana said, “Well I am sorry to say… But I feel this is an insensitive showcase and mockery of human feelings…Think of the people, their family members in the ICU fighting for their lives…. I am really shocked to see people saying ‘superb’ for a video that is plain and simple INSENSITIVE.”
However, to this, there were many doctors themselves who responded saying: “That this is an innovative video and why only sad and tearful eyes are being imagined with the name of hospital and medication (sic),” Asit N Shukla of Zydus Group, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, commented.
And Dr Shailesh Matkar, medical director at Medstar Healthcare LLC, Dubai, UAE replied, “Looks like you only look at gloomy side.”
While there were more than 1,000 views on the YouTube and LinkedIn platforms, and several likes, the Manipal Hospital, when South First reached out to speak to the doctors on the intent of the video, refused to comment.
It may be noted that Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, completed 25 years of setting up of it’s Critical Care Unit (CCU). The hospital’s ICU team claims to have treated 35,000 patients since it’s inception.
