Hockey legend refuses heart transplant offer in Pakistan

[SunilM]

Hockey legend refuses offer to undergo heart transplant in Pakistan, insists on going to India

World Cup-winning field hockey goalkeeper Mansoor Ahmed on Monday refused the offer of having his heart transplant conducted in Pakistan.

"Pakistan does not have enough facilities, I want the transplant to be conducted in India," Ahmed said.

Ahmed was reportedly being offered a mechanical heart transplantation which, had he accepted, would have been the first time the procedure was to be conducted in Pakistan.

However, the hockey legend prefers more conventional and proven procedures, for which he believes undergoing a transplant in India would be his best bet.

The ailing sports star had reached out to India last week and asked for help in securing a heart transplant — despite years of breaking the eastern neighbours' "hearts on the field".

The 49-year-old has been suffering for weeks from complications stemming from a pacemaker and stents implanted in his heart.

Ahmed has been a sporting icon in Pakistan since helping the country win the 1994 World Cup in Sydney with his penalty stroke save against the Netherlands in the final.

“I may have broken a lot of Indian hearts on the field of play by beating India in the Indira Gandhi Cup [1989] and in other events but that was sport,” Ahmed had told AFP in a recent interview.

“Now I need a heart transplant in India and for that I need support from the Indian government.”

Ahmed — who played 338 international matches, participated in three Olympics and various other high-profile events in a career spanning from 1986 to 2000 — said the visa could be a lifesaver.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1404816

Send him to IRON BROTHER!!

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Inko jahan ilaaj karana ha wahan bheja jaye.

Baat khatam

This is all marketing stunt, Indian medical tourism industry publishes such reports to use it as some sort of CSR advertising. The reason it is called med.tourism Industry...

 

[El Sidd]

This is all marketing stunt, Indian medical tourism industry publishes such reports to use it as a some sort of CSR advertising. The reason it is called med.tourism Industry...

I know.

Per uncle ka masla to hall hojaega.

Enndians are simply Enndians

 

[SunilM]

“Now I need a heart transplant in India and for that I need support from the Indian government.”

This is not medical tourism, this is begging the Govt of India. Alas, he will get it. Sould be sent to IRON BROTHER instead!

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Shocking facts about primary health care in India, and their implications


There’s nothing quite like a cold shower of shocking statistics to get you thinking. A paper that came out in Health Affairs today, written by my colleague Jishnu Das and his collaborators, is just such a cold shower.

Fake patients
Das and his colleagues spent 150 hours training each of 22 Indians to be credible fake patients. These actors were then sent into the consulting rooms of 305 medical providers – some in rural Madhya Pradesh (MP), others in urban Delhi – to allow the study team to assess the quality of care that the providers were delivering.

A lot of thought went into just what conditions the fake patients should pretend to have. The team wanted the conditions to be common, and to be ones that had established medical protocols with government-provided treatment checklists. The fake patients shouldn’t be subjected to invasive exams, and they needed to be able to be able to credibly describe invisible symptoms.


https://blogs.worldbank.org/develop...y-health-care-in-india-and-their-implications

 

[Hamza913]

I take it you would take the "honourable" way and die instead ?

No, I would get treatment from either the country I'm in, or a neighbouring ally/neutral party, why would you go to the enemy for help? Does this man have any shame?

 

[N.Siddiqui]

I know.

Per uncle ka masla to hall hojaega.

Enndians are simply Enndians

Indian media will never publish stories about Pakistani patient undergoing surgeries in India and who died...shameless marketing by India pvt. hospitals on humanitarian issues.



Pakistani infant who underwent successful heart surgery in India dies

Rohaan Sadiq, a four-month infant from Pakistan who underwent surgery in India has passed away, his father said on Twitter.


Rohaan’s father Kanwal Sadiq said that the baby died because of dehydration. The four-month infant had gone to Noida and was admitted in India’s Jaypee Hospital where he underwent a successful heart surgery.


https://tribune.com.pk/story/147729...uccessful-heart-surgery-india-dies-back-home/

 

[SunilM]

He suffered because Pakistan’s government does not care about healthcare

I am not a doctor, and this wasn’t a scheduled trip to one of the biggest hospitals in Lahore. It was a sudden, urgent need. Just moments after switching off the Xbox and lying on my bed, I felt extremely nauseous.



My family members (God bless them) rushed me to a hospital and by the grace of the Almighty, I was in stable condition within an hour.

To my surprise, there was only one Electrocardiogram (ECG) machine on a gurney carried around throughout the Emergency ward. So, in case two patients needed it at the same time, which is obviously a frequent occurrence at the government hospital, one has to wait his/her turn.


After my condition became stable, thanks to the doctor’s tireless efforts, I was told to rest. Relieved that everything was alright, I lay my head down on the bed. It was only when I turned my head to the right of my bed that I was forced to acknowledge my surroundings. There was a patient lying on the bed next to mine. He was from rural Punjab. When my relative inquired as to his illness, he was told that the man worked in the fields and got injured during work that day. The village doctor had not given him a Tetanus shot and his condition deteriorated. As a result, he had to come to a hospital hundreds of kilometres away from his village.

Tetanus is one of the agonising side-effects of normal accidents that we all experience in daily life. The inability of the patient to get himself a Tetanus injection during a specified time after the injury exposes him to a disease that is brutal.

After giving him the necessary medication for the time being, the doctors ordered the ward-boy to check the hospital for the availability of a bed with a ventilator.

Yes, that’s right. Every bed in a public hospital does not have a ventilator. In Lahore, only 155 mechanical ventilators are available for more than 500,000 patients every month.

This patient, sadly, wasn’t lucky enough to be given one.

Therefore, the patient who had come into the hospital on his own two feet became unconscious after some time. The patient’s attendants were praying – not for the health of their patient, but for a ventilator.

Isn’t that the saddest thing?

Fortunately for me, I was up on my feet and ready to go, but the worker from rural Punjab was still in a state of unconsciousness, waiting for a ventilator. I prayed to God to let it be his turn soon. The sad realisation I had, whilst praying, was that in this particular situation, for this man to get a ventilator, someone else would have to be taken off of one. Somebody had to die.

At the time, the thought filled my heart with sorrow, but now I am seething with anger.

Consider this: The life of your loved one hangs in the balance because the hospital does not have enough medical equipment. Thus, a treatable disease could lead to death.

Every year 22,000 women die of entirely preventable complications linked with maternal mortality and 423,000 children under the age of five die due to preventable and treatable diseases. Pneumonia alone takes 100,000 lives.

For the family members of the ill, the lack of healthcare services is a painful fact to deal with. For the hospital staff, however, it is an ordinary and acceptable occurrence; fate.

Pakistan has 919 hospitals, 5334 basic health units (BHUs) and sub-health centres, 560 rural health centres (RHCs), 4712 dispensaries, 905 maternal and child health (MCH) centres and 288 Tuberculosis centres. This network of healthcare institutions is supposed to cater to the needs of around 190 million people.

This means that one doctor at a public hospital is supposed to cater to about 1,724 people.

Not only is that ratio ridiculous, it is bordering on criminality. Our government’s lack of initiative and commitment to the healthcare sector has led to countless deaths, mostly due to negligence; a reason so insignificant that it boils my blood.

Why is it that the government has not installed the necessary medical equipment desperately required by the public? Why am I reading about plans for a Disneyland in Lahore in the newspapers and not the inauguration of adequate medical facilities?

When will the leadership in this country take note of these issues? How many people have to die for them to make healthcare their priority?

For all our sake, I hope, not too many.

https://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/...ns-government-does-not-care-about-healthcare/

No, I would get treatment from either the country I'm in, or a neighbouring ally/neutral party, why would you go to the enemy for help? Does this man have any shame?

Why cant the govt fund his treatment in China?

 

[N.Siddiqui]

...in reality India has the worst healthcare system in the world.


61 infants die at Indian hospital

CUTTACK: Sixty-one infants have died at an Indian children’s hospital in just two weeks, sparking protests and forcing the state government to launch an investigation.
The deaths highlight the challenges faced in India’s underfunded public health system, where successive governments have failed to address the acute shortage of staff and clinics.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/60265-61-infants-die-at-indian-hospital











India investigates hospital deaths of 30 children in second oxygen supply case

Indian police are investigating whether 30 infants died for lack of oxygen in a northern state-run hospital, the second case within a month in which medical supply shortages have been blamed for the deaths of dozens of children.

An underfunded, poorly managed public health system is in the spotlight after more than 60 children died in August in a public hospital in northern Uttar Pradesh, amid accusations that oxygen supplies ran out because of unpaid bills.

Police launched an investigation on Sunday in the latest case after a government report blamed the chief medical officer and doctors at another institution in the northern state, Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, for the deaths of 30 children.

The infants died of “perinatal asphyxia” at the newborn care unit of the hospital in the state’s Farrukhabad district between 21 July and 20 August, police said.

“The probe officer was told by mothers that the hospital did not insert oxygen pipes [into infants’ windpipes] after birth, and proper medication was also not given,” police said in the complaint, quoting the government report.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...s-of-30-children-in-second-oxygen-supply-case

 

[Shamsher1990]

...in reality India has the worst healthcare system in the world.

The reality is that there are many levels of Indian health care. Most Indians are too poor to afford better healthcare in their own country.

 

[SunilM]

27 children die in Tharparkar’s Mithi in just 16 days

HYDERABAD:

The torrid summer, stunted growth and dubious health services in the desert region Tharparkar continue to claim lives of children.


According to unconfirmed reports, 27 children have died in the Civil Hospital Mithi alone in the first 16 days of this month. Many deaths have also reportedly occurred in dozens of other health centres as well as in the remote villages.

Four children died in the civil hospital on Monday according to a hospital’s staffer who requested anonymity. The deceased were eight-month-old Mansha, nine-month-old Mubarak and two newborns of Haji Muhammad.

Around 10 children died in the same hospital last week, according to unofficial sources. Most of the deceased were less than one year old.

“Underweight children born to malnourished mothers require medical help to survive. Unfortunately, the standards of the medical intervention required are lacking,” a paediatrician, working with a leading private hospital who visits Tharparkar’s hospitals and health centers quite often, commented on the condition of anonymity.

1,340 children have died in Thar since 2014, court told

“The leading cause of infant mortality is premature birth, complication at the time of birth or infections.” According to him, all these conditions are mostly curable if the medical practitioners could be equipped with the skills and the health facility with medicines and equipment.

Akbar Gaho, father of one-year-old Noshad who died in the hospital two days ago, alleged that his son died due to negligence of the doctors. “His health condition didn’t look so critical. But the doctors delayed in starting his medical treatment,” claimed Gaho, a resident of a village in Islamkot taluka.

His family and neighbours also staged a protest against the doctors of Civil Hospital in Mithi on Saturday and demanded an inquiry. Haji Muhammad, whose newborns died on Monday, also complained of inadequate facilities and sullen attitude of the hospital’s staff while talking to media. The local health officials were not available for comments.

According to a recent Unicef report, Pakistan tops the UN children agency’s list of 10 countries which have the highest infant mortality, with 46 newborns out of 1,000 dying within the first month of their birth.

Among these countries, eight are in Africa and two in Asia, including Afghanistan, which is ranked at the third place.

“Pakistan is the riskiest place to be born as measured by its newborn mortality rate,” states the report. “A baby born in Pakistan is almost 50 times more likely to die during his or her first month than a baby born in Japan, Iceland and Singapore.”

The Unicef has also pointed out that “access to maternal and newborn health services provided by skilled health providers correlate strongly with high newborn mortality rates”.

Drought-like conditions persist in Tharparkar. The provincial government announced distribution of subsidised wheat for the district last month. But the local people complain that the wheat distribution has still not started.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1688075/1-children-lesser-god-27-children-die-mithi-just-16-days/

 

[N.Siddiqui]

35 children die in Indian hospital in 3 days; parents blame lack of oxygen

Parents of at least 35 children who have died in a hospital in northern India over the past three days have alleged that the deaths were caused by the lack of oxygen supply in the children's ward.

District Magistrate Rajiv Rautela said Saturday that the deaths of the children being treated for different ailments at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur city in Uttar Pradesh state were from natural causes. He denied that the lack of oxygen led to their deaths.

Parents said oxygen supply to the ward ran out Thursday night, and patients' families were given self-inflating bags to help the children breathe.

"That's the time when the death of the children peaked," said Mritunjaya Singh, whose 7-month-old son was admitted to the hospital and was not among the dead.


The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered an investigation.

Prashant Trivedi, the state's top health official, admitted that there was a problem in the pipeline supplying oxygen.

"But the situation was managed through oxygen cylinders. The hospital administration has enough supply of cylinders in its stock. So the report about death of children because of oxygen issue is false," Trivedi said.

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-india-child-deaths-20170811-story.html

 

[hazzam]

Some people have no shame, begging the enemy to treat them. Smh.

when whole country is on begging spree this is not his fault .

otherwise seeking help from neighbours is not begging .

Why doesn't he go to US/Europe for the best medical treatment?

when you can't purchase roti , go for cake ,that is very easy .

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Troubled Indian hospital says 217 children died there in August

Death continues to haunt a government hospital in north India that came under fire earlier this month after dozens of babies died within two days.

Dr. P.K. Singh, the head of the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur city, said Wednesday that at least 217 children died there in August alone due to a variety of reasons including an annual encephalitis outbreak. Singh added that 42 children have died in the last 48 hours. Seven of the deaths were from encephalitis while the others were attributed to other medical complications.

The hospital found itself in the middle of a media storm earlier this month when 33 children died there Aug. 10 and 11 around the same time as a disruption in the oxygen supply. A team of experts from New Delhi later said that the interruption was not responsible for the deaths, but there was fury in India over how the hospital let oxygen run out.

"Increase in fatality is because of seasonal infection," Singh said, explaining the deaths. "There is no shortage of oxygen or medicine in the hospital. Children died only because of medical complication not because of medical negligence."

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-india-hospital-deaths-20170830-story.html

 

[SunilM]

when whole country is on begging spree this is not his fault .

otherwise seeking help from neighbours is not begging .

Pakistan hockey legend refuses heart treatment in Karachi

Pakistan hockey legend Mansoor Ahmed refused treatment offered to him by a hospital in Karachi, and stuck to his earlier stance of going to India for the procedure, media reports said on Monday.



Mansoor is suffering from left ventricular failure of heart, whereby the oxygenated blood is not passed on to his body properly, and he had earlier requested Indian government to issue him a visa in order to travel to the country for LVAD (left ventricular assist device) implant surgery.

Pakistan’s hockey World Cup winner looking towards India for heart transplant

However, in a tweet done by the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) on April 26, Mansoor was announced as the first candidate for the surgery.

But media reports on Monday said Mansoor is not ready to be treated in Karachi since the country doesn’t have experience in performing such procedures and prefers to travel to India for the implant.

Indian hospital offers free heart transplant to Pakistan’s hockey legend

Earlier, after the hockey legend had pleaded for a visa, a private Indian hospital, Fortis Group of Hospitals, offered him a free-of-cost procedure in India.

He had said in the YouTube video: “Today I need a heart and I need the support of the Indian government.”


Pakistan hockey legend Mansoor Ahmed refused treatment offered to him by a hospital in Karachi, and stuck to his earlier stance of going to India for the procedure, media reports said on Monday.



Mansoor is suffering from left ventricular failure of heart, whereby the oxygenated blood is not passed on to his body properly, and he had earlier requested Indian government to issue him a visa in order to travel to the country for LVAD (left ventricular assist device) implant surgery.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1699065/7-pakistan-hockey-legend-refuses-treatment-country/