Quotes by Dr. Edmond
On global health security
I believe that between disease management and global health security, there is another option: that of committed action & superior discernment.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes
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On public health crisis on the ground
To combat the public health crisis, emerging due to cascading risks from climate impact, we need deliverance on the ground with actions focused on community resilience and community-based development. Without public health programmes at grass-root levels, we are flying blind in our global approach to address the most dramatic challenges of our mortal existence.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes
On door-step doctors
The door-step doctor will revolutionize modern medicine and will inject an infectious consciousness of change among the populace. The will to get here is what visionary governance and commerce must work to achieve.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes
On Christmas
Love was born on Christmas day, on a cold December night in BC 6 – 4 in the Herodian Kingdom of the Roman Empire. The message by Jesus Christ, very simple, “Love one another as I have loved you.” With 20 centuries having gone by, Christmas presents a perfect opportunity for each of us to understand the true meaning of love, life and liberty and reflect inwards.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes
On pandemic management
The management of pandemics in India today should be crafted with tact of a public health field expert, built on numbers shared by biostatisticians and war rooms controlled by community health physicians and professional public health experts, beyond national and state capitals. Sitting merely at the capital, being disconnected by voices from the field and giving media statements is not how you handle infectious diseases and disaster risk reduction.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes
On public health diplomacy
Success of a public health intervention is met by passion & perseverance alone. The victories are made up of microscopic advantages by engaging with stakeholders & taking healthcare to the homes. Of a wise health intervention at one location, of opportune policy making at another, of sick patients support at village door-steps and a consistent translational science at another, of tough global diplomacy, a social determinant approach and extreme patience that no official, no blockade, no provocation and no negligence can shake.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes
On social progress
I believe in social progress that at its heart is embedded in morals. There is a right and there is a wrong, and building people around recognizing the difference is crucial to sustainable futures.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes
On medical practitioners
Medical practitioners today are not prepared to be climate ready, climate focused, climate resilient as medical textbooks don't teach you to be prepared in this direction. Physicians are told to inspect, palpate and auscultate a human body. We need to drive modern medicine putting patient care at the heart of human development that factors in public health in all specialty approach.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes
On human body
Health systems need to understand that patient care and community health does not work on a merely OPD and in- patient basis. Today's patient is a derivative from social ills built on threat multipliers like a climate and disaster crisis. The human body today is a derivate of a boiling planet with an environmental trigger beyond normal comprehension.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes
On style of leadership
In a world accustomed to war, compassion, kindness, mercy become the new style of leadership our times desperately need. In our wisdom, we must choose & identify talent that echoes such styles.
— Dr. Edmond Fernandes