Dear Doctor Sooknundun,

I wish to thank you, through this letter, for the professionalism you and all the members of your team have shown during the treatment of one of our guests, Mrs Joan PONTON.

I must also congratulate every member of your team who took such great care of her at the Clinic. Your team and yourself have certainly understood this important emotional part.

Once again. Doctor Mike. I want to express my most sincere gratitude for all the great care you and your team have provided to our guests.

Looking forward to continue our collaboration.

Most sincerely yours,

Bride Lunot

Legends Mauritius General Manager

Dear Dr. Mike,

I write to thank you for the superb medical and nursing services which you were able to provide to my professional colleague and friend at the Clinique Du Nord.

You will remember his case well. He and I came· to Mauritius earlier this month to undertake advocacy training work for the British Council and the Mauritian Government. On the day following our arrival, he fell ill and required emergency endoscopies to determine the source of a significant gastrointestinal hemorrhage. I was present throughout his several investigations (echography, gastroscopy and colonoscopy) and each was performed to the highest European standards. Unfortunately the bleeding did not settle and following a massive further hemorrhage an emergency laparotomy and large bowel resection was necessary to arrest his life-threatening blood loss.

I had the privilege (as a UK registered medical practitioner and former anaesthetist) to be by my friend's side in the operating theatre throughout his anesthetic, emergency operation and subsequent recovery. At all times I was impressed with the standard of medical care and nursing he received. Despite nearly losing his life from a blood loss amounting to a total of some 3.5 litres, by virtue of the expert expeditious treatment he received, within a week he had almost fully recovered from his major surgery. He suffered no complications notwithstanding the need for an 8 pint blood transfusion, intravenous fluids and numerous medications.

Besides the modern equipment you have at the clinic and constant nursing care (which he would not even have had in England) I was most impressed by the role you personally played. As a specialist yourself you acted as the 24-hour conductor of all the medical care my colleague received, calling in specialists according to his particular needs as and when they arose. Often in private clinics, the physician or surgeon first engaged will hold onto the patient too long instead of referring him onto others when greater expertise is required in a particular area.

I am a specialist in medical negligence law and practice (www.medneg.co.uk) and I am acutely conscious of malpractice and poor practice and I would have no hesitation in recommending the quality of the medical and surgical services you provide. I thank you, the surgeons, physicians and nursing staff for all that was done to· save my colleague's life

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Michael J Powers QC