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Mother`s miracle questioned by doctors
Balurghat (WB), Oct 07: A controversy has arisen over the reported miracle that is said to have taken Mother Teresa closer to sainthood with a former West Bengal health Minister and doctors claiming that the ovarian tumour of a North Bengal woman, Monica Besra, was medically cured.
"This woman was cured by medicines," he said without commenting on the aspect of the miracle.
Superintendent of state-run Balurghat hospital Dr Manju Murshed told "with due regards to the Mother I must say and place medical treatment above a miracle."
Murshed said that Monica was treated at the hospital in 1998 by Dr Tarun Kumar Biswas and Dr Ranjan Mustafi.
Dr Mustafi, a gynaecologist, said she was suffering from ovarian tumour which was detected following an ultra sonography and was subsequently treated for TB at the North Bengal medical college and hospital.
Subsequently another ultra sonography after nine months showed that the tumour had disappeared. "This was possible due to prolonged treatment," Dr Mustafi said.
She had been treated initially by Dr T K Biswas for tubercular meningitis when she was admitted to the hospital in June 1998 for a month.
Dr Mustafi said the medicines given for TB cured her of her tumour and 'not a miracle'.
Bureau Report