Amidst all the brouhaha surrounding the unprovoked firing on Indian soldiers from sources inimical to peace and friendly relations between the two neighbours (India and Pakistan), here comes the heartening and inspirational news about a team of doctors in a Noida hospital giving a 9 year old boy from Lahore a new lease of life by performing a life transforming surgical procedure on him.........
A nine year old boy hailing from the Pakistani city of Lahore received a renewed lease of life thanks to the sterling efforts of a dedicated and persevering team of doctors from Noida's Fortis Hospital who successfully performed simultaneous kidney and liver transplant surgeries on the long suffering young boy on Tuesday..........
The successful surgeries were the end result of a conjoined or coordinated effort between the officials of the Pakistani foreign ministry, officials from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad and last but not the least, the concerned and conscientious team of doctors from Noida's Fortis Hospital..........
Amaar Asif, the nine year old boy has been continually suffering from hyperoxaluria (an extremely rare and life threatening condition caused by the overproduction of a chemical oxalate that combines with calcium to form an extremely hard compound that is the main component of kidney stones) for the last five years and more of his nascent and fledgling life............
According to his relieved and eternally thankful mother Unaiza, Aamar had become extremely weak and was in excruciating pain because of his condition; "he was so weak and uncoordinated that routine tasks like playing a game of cricket with his friends or then attending school on a daily basis had become a hellish ordeal for him".........
"We initially wrote off his condition as nothing more than a severe stomach ache but our worst fears came true when a subsequent diagnosis revealed the incidence of both kidney as well as liver failure in our beloved child", the grateful mother signs off........
A dedicated and persevering team of ten surgeons, six anaesthetists, and 30 odd nurses were involved in the over eighteen hour long surgical procedure that got under way early Tuesday morning; the team of doctors was jointly headed by Dr. Vivek Vij, Director of gastrointestinal surgery and liver transplants as well as Dr. Dushyant Nadar, senior consultant, urology.........
Aamar's paternal uncle was kind enough to part with his kidney while his maternal uncle more than willingly parted with a part of his liver so that their nephew got an extended and long overdue second lease of life; Aamar's father Asif Elahi owns what is popularly referred to as a "Mom and Pop" store in Lahore and the Pakistani government bore the lion's share of the cost of the operation as the family's modest means did not allow them to bear the cost of the extensive surgery........
Aamar who is looking a lot better after the life transforming surgery intends visiting a few malls and picking a few souvenirs for his friends and family members back home before he wends his way back to home and hearth in a little over a fortnight.........
Here's hoping that such noble and humanitarian gestures come to signify and embody the rocky and mostly inimical relationship between two countries that are inextricably bound together at the umbilical cord and not a spate of firing at the borders and mutual recrimination and deep rooted distrust; I for one am ardently looking forward to the dawning of a new era of bonhomie and trust between the two Asian neighbours........
A nine year old boy hailing from the Pakistani city of Lahore received a renewed lease of life thanks to the sterling efforts of a dedicated and persevering team of doctors from Noida's Fortis Hospital who successfully performed simultaneous kidney and liver transplant surgeries on the long suffering young boy on Tuesday..........
The successful surgeries were the end result of a conjoined or coordinated effort between the officials of the Pakistani foreign ministry, officials from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad and last but not the least, the concerned and conscientious team of doctors from Noida's Fortis Hospital..........
Amaar Asif, the nine year old boy has been continually suffering from hyperoxaluria (an extremely rare and life threatening condition caused by the overproduction of a chemical oxalate that combines with calcium to form an extremely hard compound that is the main component of kidney stones) for the last five years and more of his nascent and fledgling life............
According to his relieved and eternally thankful mother Unaiza, Aamar had become extremely weak and was in excruciating pain because of his condition; "he was so weak and uncoordinated that routine tasks like playing a game of cricket with his friends or then attending school on a daily basis had become a hellish ordeal for him".........
"We initially wrote off his condition as nothing more than a severe stomach ache but our worst fears came true when a subsequent diagnosis revealed the incidence of both kidney as well as liver failure in our beloved child", the grateful mother signs off........
A dedicated and persevering team of ten surgeons, six anaesthetists, and 30 odd nurses were involved in the over eighteen hour long surgical procedure that got under way early Tuesday morning; the team of doctors was jointly headed by Dr. Vivek Vij, Director of gastrointestinal surgery and liver transplants as well as Dr. Dushyant Nadar, senior consultant, urology.........
Aamar's paternal uncle was kind enough to part with his kidney while his maternal uncle more than willingly parted with a part of his liver so that their nephew got an extended and long overdue second lease of life; Aamar's father Asif Elahi owns what is popularly referred to as a "Mom and Pop" store in Lahore and the Pakistani government bore the lion's share of the cost of the operation as the family's modest means did not allow them to bear the cost of the extensive surgery........
Aamar who is looking a lot better after the life transforming surgery intends visiting a few malls and picking a few souvenirs for his friends and family members back home before he wends his way back to home and hearth in a little over a fortnight.........
Here's hoping that such noble and humanitarian gestures come to signify and embody the rocky and mostly inimical relationship between two countries that are inextricably bound together at the umbilical cord and not a spate of firing at the borders and mutual recrimination and deep rooted distrust; I for one am ardently looking forward to the dawning of a new era of bonhomie and trust between the two Asian neighbours........
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