Friday 17 August 2012

Indian NGO comes for Pak girl’s help


If innumerable by-lanes of Hyderabad’s old city many a times sheltered Pakistan-funded terror modules, it also provided medical aid to hundreds of them in need in the neighboring, belligerent Pakistan.

In a moving incident, a Hyderabad-based NGO SAHI (Society to Aid the Hearing Impaired) is helping a 20-month-old girl from Pakistan to get rid of her hearing impairment.  

Little Khadija is set to undergo a cochlear implant today at Apollo Hospital here. The implant will help Khadija to hear like anybody else. She was born deaf to Adnan Adeel and Shehr Banu in the Pakistani port city of Karachi.

“We came to know of the problem four months after her birth and we were worried about her future,” a news agency quoted Shehr Banu as saying.

Khadija is the couple's second daughter. Adeel is an electrical engineer in Karachi.

‘I came to know about SAHI through the Internet. I am grateful to them for offering the device free of cost as a gesture of goodwill," Adeel was quoted.

While the device costs $20,000, the surgery expenses will around $5,000 to $6,000.

SAHI helps poor children with hearing impairment. It identifies children mainly in rural areas with little or no access to modern medical treatment.

Adeel approached 300 individuals and organisations seeking help for Khadija. “I am honored to be the first foreigner to avail charity from SAHI but I hope I will not be the last,” Adeel reportedly said.

“In a state of war all our resources are used on weapons instead of meeting the needs of poor, hungry and the needy. We need a war not against each other but against poverty and diseases," he added.

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