Campaigner against cancer in Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: Dr Meeta Mankad's friends and colleagues remembers her as a doctor who always spoke about cancer, its diagnosis and its treatment. She was able to talk to women from rural and urban areas in the simplest language about cancer. This January, she had delivered a lecture about cancers of the ovary, cervix, uterus and breast, at a cancer institute in the Vasna area of the city.
Her colleague at a private hospital, Dr Natoo Patel, a cancer surgeon, said, "I am saddened by her demise. I knew her as a nice, well-mannered and smiling woman. Though our areas were different, we used to chat on various topics at a coffee shop. We lost a good human being and a great doctor."
Dr Geeta Joshi, who was head of the MP Shah Cancer Hospital, said that Dr Meeta could speak about cancer-related issues with the utmost simplicity. "I knew her since 1984, when I joined the MP Shah institute, as she was already serving as a lecturer there. She was great at her subject. After I retired from there, we did not speak much but recently I invited her to deliver a talk at an institute in Vasna where she seemed absolutely fine."