By Nimra Naeem | Assistant Manager
Agility is a blessing. One only realizes it when one is going through the ordeal of arthritis. It makes one’s joints red and swollen. One is unable to take the usual stroll down the street. One cannot perform the daily household chores because of the weakness of legs. Clicking bones and cracking joints is the sound that the patients of Arthritis become used to.
Being ambulatory is one of the greatest blessings that Allah has bestowed upon us and this is something that only the people suffering from the painful disease of Arthritis realize. Arthritis causes stiffness, swelling and pain in or around joints and is a recurring disorder which affects around 14 million people in Pakistan. Out of the affected people, 50% are above 71 years.
The wrong diagnosis or treatment of Arthritis could lead to a permanent disability of the patient. As Arthritis attacks each and every minor joint of the body, there comes a stage when no medicine can cure it and surgery becomes compulsory to save a patient’s life.
In Pakistan, a large proportion of the population suffers from joint pain (a symptom of Arthritis) but most of the people ignore it and do not visit the doctor for diagnosis or treatment. Therefore, Fatima Memorial Hospital in collaboration with Arthritis Care Foundation (ACF) has been helping the destitute to overcome this painful disease by creating awareness through Arthritis walks and seminars and also by providing free or subsidized treatment to Arthritis patients.
However, the number of patients who require free treatment is rising day by day and the resources of Fatima Memorial Hospital are limited. This has made it very hard to cater to the patient population which is ratcheting up. Therefore, we request our altruistic donors to support us in our cause of making Pakistan free from Arthritis!
Free diagnostics, medication and even surgery (joint replacement) were provided to Arthritis patients free of cost or on subsidized rates using the funds donated by our auspicious donors. Hence, we request our esteemed donors to help us in this cause and ease the suffering of thousands of patients suffering from this painful and deadly (in extreme cases) disease!
Thank you!
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