Conjoined twins to get free of cost treatment services

[SparklingCrescent]

SAHIWAL: In response to a Geo TV report about the birth of conjoined twins in Sahiwal, many individuals and organizations have come forward to offer their help for the treatment of babies.

A mother has given birth to conjoined twins at a hospital in District Sahiwal. According to hospital management, the twins are joined at the head.

Surayya Bibi, a resident of Chak-104 located in the outskirts of Sahiwal, was brought to the hospital on Saturday night. She underwent an ultrasound, which revealed that she was expecting twins, who were joined at head.

The doctors went for the operation and saved the babies, but their heads were still joined.

The doctors said that twins could be separated provided they were not sharing the brain.

On the other hand, Surayya Bibi said she could not afford the treatment, which could cost at least Rs4 to Rs5 lac. She appealed to government to bear the hospital expenses.

The national airline Pakistan International Airline has announced it will provide free travel services to shift the family to any city for the purpose of treatment.

Jinnah Hospital Lahore Neurosurgeon Dr. Zafar Iqbal and Plastic Surgeon Dr. Moazaam Tarrar have also offered to operate the twins for free of cost. They said separating heads is a difficult job, but they will utilize their best of abilities to do so.

While Pakistan Baitul Mal MD Zamarrud Khan has also announced to bear the treatment expenses of the twins.

FC Balochistan official said that they would make all arrangements to shift the parents of twins to Karachi for the purpose of treatment.

 

[SparklingCrescent]

do you guys mind if I post the picture of the conjoined twins?

 

[SparklingCrescent]

 

[ajpirzada]

for a moment i thought its to do with pakitan and afghanistan. after all we are 'conjoined twins' as well

 

[Ahmad]

for a moment i thought its to do with pakitan and afghanistan. after all we are 'conjoined twins' as well

LOL, i was just about to post exactly the same thing and then i saw your post. when i first saw the topic i thoujght it mightt be aabout afghanistana and pakistan.

 

[Spring Onion]

Bravo to all those who have come forward to help the couple

 

[Justin Joseph]

Bravo to all those who have come forward to help the couple

Many Pakistanis specially children get free medical treatments/surgery in India.


Another three kids from Pak avail of promise

Pakistani child gets Indian eye - World - www.smh.com.au

Ayesha - a new symbol of hope in India-Pakistan ties

Lady from Pakistan gets a happy life after an IVF treatment in India at Mumbai. - Free-Press-Release.com


If u know a poor kid which is in the need of state of the art medical treatment u can get him/her with the level of best in the world treatment, free of cost.

 

[Al-zakir]

Fine example of humanity at work. I congratulate all who came to help these angel. May allah bless them all.

 

[Al-zakir]

Many Pakistanis specially children get free medical treatments/surgery in India.

How does it ralated to this event. Another fail attempt to praise bharat by a bharati.

 

[Hyde]

Many Pakistanis specially children get free medical treatments/surgery in India.


Another three kids from Pak avail of promise

Pakistani child gets Indian eye - World - www.smh.com.au

Ayesha - a new symbol of hope in India-Pakistan ties

Lady from Pakistan gets a happy life after an IVF treatment in India at Mumbai. - Free-Press-Release.com

If u know a poor kid which is in the need of state of the art medical treatment u can get him/her with the level of best in the world treatment, free of cost.

oh well i can remember some indian families too visited Pakistan for treatment purposes. I have been reading such new since years now where peoples from across the border has been treated by the doctors of both countries and that too many times for free.

Its really a good step but i guess its off topic we can discuss some other time

 

[Spring Onion]

Many Pakistanis specially children get free medical treatments/surgery in India.


Another three kids from Pak avail of promise

Pakistani child gets Indian eye - World - www.smh.com.au

Ayesha - a new symbol of hope in India-Pakistan ties

Lady from Pakistan gets a happy life after an IVF treatment in India at Mumbai. - Free-Press-Release.com
If u know a poor kid which is in the need of state of the art medical treatment u can get him/her with the level of best in the world treatment, free of cost.

Yes Thank you.



The Indian help is appreciated.

i am appealing for help for this Indian kid through my Journalists' group hope you guys will be spreading the word too so the kid get the help

This is real please dont play politics here we need to help this Indian kid please join me in spreading the word

Parents of eight-limbed child hope for help


Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010


Indian boy Deepak Kumar, 7, crying as he walks with a parasitic twin growing from his torso in Belhari village, about 125 kms from Patna in Bihar state. Born with four legs and four arms in one of the most impoverished states of India, he is still too young to understand why pilgrims come to the house to worship him, highlighting the misunderstanding of disability in the country, as well as the lack of medical care for those born with defects, particularly in rural areas. -AFP Photo

PATNA: Seven-year-old Deepak Kumar, born with four legs and four arms in one of the most impoverished states of India, is still too young to understand why pilgrims come to the house to worship him.

His severe physical disability, which his parents want treated with surgery, has turned him into a religious icon for some local Hindus who see a resemblance to the multi-limbed God Vishnu.

“Some people give me money, fruit and sweets. Sometime I also get flowers from them,” said the child, from Belhari village about 125 kilometres (80 miles) from Patna, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Bihar.

His plight is rare, say campaigners, but it highlights the misunderstanding of disability in India, as well as the lack of medical care for those born with defects, particularly in rural areas.

“Some people with folded hands bend before him, others are touching him like a deity and many offer money or sweets for divine blessings,” his mother, Indu Devi, told AFP during an interview with the family in Patna.

She says her third son's survival surprised local doctors and village elders in this rural area who held out little hope of him surviving after birth.

Many children born in India with his level of physical disability - he has the extra limbs owing to a parasitic twin attached at his chest - would have died during birth or become one of India's many unreported infanticide cases, campaigners say.

His father, Viresh Paswan, a low-caste construction worker in his mid 30s, says he is uncomfortable with the well-meaning pilgrims who treat Deepak as a religious object.

“I'm not in favour of earning money by allowing people to worship him,”Paswan told AFP in Patna.

“I simply want an operation for my son to get rid of the abnormal parts and for him to have a normal body,” he said.
There are rays of hope, but so far nothing has happened.

At the invitation of local state lawmaker Dadan Pahalwan, the family recently travelled to Patna for a medical examination at the Patna Medical College and Hospital.

Paswan is also encouraged by the story of Lakshmi Tatma, a girl from Bihar who was born with four arms and four legs but who was successfully operated on in the southern city of Bangalore in 2007.

She was also treated as a rare child with divine powers in her village before she was brought to the Sparsh Hospital which bore the cost of the 50,000-dollar surgery.

Her remarkable story propelled her to worldwide fame, making her the subject of television documentaries and newspaper articles in countries across the globe.

“I was informed that like my Deepak, a girl child with an almost similar parasitic twin was separated. Now I hope for the same for my son,” Paswan said.

Life for Deepak is made difficult by the extra weight of the limbs, which means he is unable to play with his two healthy brothers, aged 10 and 11, or other children - some of whom tease him.

He also suffers from pain, irritation and skin infection in the fingers and withered arms of his parasitic twin.

“Some children deliberately squeeze my twin and I cry out in pain,” Deepak explained.

Shantha Sinha, chairperson of India's National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, said she was “appalled” by the idea of Deepak being treated as a religious idol.

She said his treatment illustrated the work India still had to do to raise awareness about disability and ensure medical treatment for those in need.

“The legal framework is coming into place, but more important is societal preparedness. The anxiety and compassion has to come,” she told AFP.

The Mail Today tabloid, which first raised the case nationally, printed a large picture with a headline challenging readers to take a look. “Stomach This!” it thundered.

India has signed the UN Convention of Disability Rights, which promises equality and rights for the disabled, and has passed its own disability act.

But like so often in India, there is a large gap between laws that offer rights and protection to people and the enforcement of them.

Thomas Chandy, head of the charity Save the Children India, says all too often children born with disabilities like Deepak are neglected.

“Their vulnerability is already high and sadly when there is disability they don't get the attention and treatment that they should get,” he said.

Bihar has been in the news lately thanks to its fast economic growth under chief minister Nitish Kumar, who is credited with offering a brighter future for a state once synonymous with poverty, corruption and crime.

“Bihar is developing fast economically. Sadly this sort of thing shows the other part of Bihar,” Chandy said.

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[secularguy]

oh well i can remember some indian families too visited Pakistan for treatment purposes. I have been reading such new since years now where peoples from across the border has been treated by the doctors of both countries and that too many times for free.

Its really a good step but i guess its off topic we can discuss some other time

Bhai ,Aapko Yakeen he?May be Those Indians wanted some reason to visit relatives in Pakistan?Indians generally don't believe Pakistan is thaaat developed(no offense meant) Especially regarding Medical Tourism(and I'm telling ya'bout aam aadmi).

The News may not be True?

@topic:Hope they can save kids.