By Fariha Nadir | Project Manager
The role that women play in the society is pivotal; they are mothers, sisters and wives – the ones truly shaping our future. However, often, being a woman in the Sindhi society is a thankless task, and often very dangerous too.
Women in rural Sind work with their husbands and fathers in the fields as well as take care of their homes, but the society does not pay them the due respect. They have to look to their men for the most basic of needs – even food and respsect.
Heer Khatoon, 25 years old, is one such woman. She is a house wife and a mother of 3. Her husband is a farmer who tends the land of their landlord. She also works with her husband in the fields. Due to lack of nutrition and fatigue, she suffered from a disease which caused cataract in her left eye. She complained about her diminishing vision to her husband but he did not paid attention and assumed she was making it up to avoid work. So, Heer Khatoon never went to an opthamologist. However, after a year passed by and a white scar appeared in her eye, she showed it to her husband and told him that she really could not see anything anymore from her left eye.
Panic stricken, her husband finally understood that a blind wife would be a burden rather than support and took her to a nearby clinic where she was diagnosed with cataract and informed that she needed immediate surgery. However, the cost of surgery was too high for her husband to be able to afford. An attendant at the clinic saw he couple in distress and suggested they go to LRBT Gambat – a facility which provided completely free eye treatment to the poor and needy.
The very next day, Heer came to LRBT Gambat for an eye checkup. Upon detailed examination, she was diagnosed with drug induced hyper mature cataract in left eye and immature cataract in the right eye and booked for surgery.
On 22-09-2016 a successful surgery with intra Ocular IOL performed free of charges and restore her vision by 6/9
On fist follow-up, she came to LRBT with her husband and was very happy; She had started work at a neighbor house and was getting Rs. 3000/- per month to help her husband.
‘Really, LRBT is hope for hopeless – it has helped me step into a position of more independence and confidence. I now believe that God is looking after me’
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