Mera dil hai Hindustani! – Pakistan
man brags about Indian heart
Forty-year-old
Pakistani national Mohammed Zubair Ashmi, who got a new lease of life
after he underwent a heart transplant surgery at a Chennai hospital in April,
has a change of heart towards India.
‘Today,
I proudly tell people that my heart is Indian,’ he says, adding that after the
transplant he is feeling energetic. He is one of the many patients on whom
cardiac transplant has been performed in Chennai which sees maximum number of
such surgeries in the country, thanks to the efficient organ sharing network in
Tamil Nadu.
Ashmi,
who worked as a religious teacher in a mosque in Pakistan’s Gujarat
was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy — a condition in which the heart
becomes so weak and enlarged that it begins to affect blood supply to
lungs, liver and other organs. With his heart’s pumping efficiency dropping
from 60% to 10-15% and several parts of body getting swollen, he repeatedly
found himself in several hospitals in Pakistan. Hopes of a normal life had
completely faded till doctors felt that a heart transplant can be a way out. Doctors
in Pakistan discussed his case with Dr KR Balakrishnan, director of cardiac
sciences, Fortis Malar Hospital at Adyar in Chennai. Soon, Ashmi was in India.
‘After
his arrival, we performed a detailed medical examination. We realised that he
also suffered from renal failure, and had fluid in his lungs and abdomen.
Besides, he tested positive for hepatitis C. All this just made his condition
extremely difficult to treat,’ explains Dr Balakrishnan.
Despite
being on continuous medicinal support, Ashmi’s cardiac function deteriorated.
This left the doctors with no option but to either put him on the heart
transplant wait list or to fit him with an artificial heart implant device. He
was put on the list. After a wait of about two months, the heart tissue of a
37-year-old road accident victim, who was declared brain dead, matched with Ashmi.
On
April 23, Ashmi underwent the transplant and was discharged in June. He is back
in Chennai for a check-up, and the doctors are pleased to see the developments.
Now, he can walk up to eight kilometres and is teaching students in a
madarssa.
‘Today I am alive because of an Indian heart.
Before coming to his country, I had different thoughts in mind. But the
hospitality of people and kindness of the doctors made me to change my mind.
Lots of the people spoke with me after this surgery. I proudly say my heart is
Indian,’ Ashmi says.
‘For
my second travel to India, the Indian Embassy immediately sanctioned my visa.
People in Pakistan are asking me whether I can get them things such as shoes
and clothes, or food and toys from Chennai. People of both the countries must
treat each other with respect,’ he adds.
Source:
http://health.india.com
11.10.2013
New, cheaper
dialysis system expected by 2016
A private hospital on Wednesday announced that it would be
able to produce a new and cheaper method of haemodialysis in India to help
chronic kidney patients.
Stating that India was home to 75 million people with
chronic kidney disease, and that nearly 200,000 new kidney patients required
dialysis every year, Pratha C. Reddy, chairman of Apollo Hospitals said that in
collaboration with Medtronics, a leader in medical technology, her hospital
would unveil the new system in about three years.
The new dialysis system will be portable and helpful for
kidney patients, who often pay for costly treatment after getting admitted to
hospital, she said.
Source:
http://health.india.com
11.10.2013
Educating
the mind without educating the heart is no education at all
John F Kennedy
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