Reports

Malalai Hospital Saves 9 Year Old Meningitis Patient

July 5, 2003

Report by RAWA.
July 2003.

Nine-year-old Arezo, the daughter of Haleema and Raqeeb, comes from one of the poorest families of Farah province. She was one of our patients in the month of July.

The doctors, after checking her in Farah, had found that she was suffering from a serious case of meningitis, with a fatality rate of about 90%. They were getting a negative prognosis from the doctors due to a lack of medical facilities in Farah. In order to treat her in a better medical facility, they rushed her to Malalai Hospital in Quetta as soon as they could.

The doctors in Quetta’s Malalai Hospital considered the case dangerous and emphasized that the patient needed serious and costly treatment. Our facilities in Rawalpindi were ready to treat Arezo. She was transferred there by air. After being in the hospital for 16 days under intense observation, Arezo defeated death.

Her parents who had lost all hope, told us: “You and your staff have given us a new Arezo (Arezo means hope). Otherwise we had lost all hope.”

Malalai Hospital While leaving the hospital, her father said: “I don’t know how to express my gratitude to you for the joy you have given me. From now on I consider Arezo as RAWA’s daughter. You have given her another chance for life.”