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Date Posted: 20:05:41 07/19/99 Mon
Author: Thomas Begin
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 195.212.29.17
Subject: Indians hv really a big heart

Hi everyone:

I read this news in www.samachar.com.Indians are so light-hearted even
during this war-time.


Indians have a big heart, says Pakistani
Free Press News Service
16 July 1999

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Chennai (July 16): Even in the thick of the Kargil war and hatred, one
Pakistani has discovered that Indians have a big heart when it comes to
helping people in distress.
Mohd Asif of Karachi was in a fix. His six-year-old daughter Sadia was born
with a hole in the heart. She was operated upon in Karachi, but developed
complications. Asif was told that the only way out was to seek help from the
Madras Medical Mission Hospital that specialises in operating on infant
hearts. But that suggestion gave Asif a mild 'heart attack'. How could he
ever go to an enemy country at the height of a war and seek help? What will
be the reception? But then his daughter had only three months of life left
according to local doctors and Asif was forced to take the chance.

After two months of running around, he finally got the visa. "We were
apprehensive. We were expecting to meet rude people. People who hated us. We
came via Mumbai, but did not stop there as they do no rent rooms to
Pakistanis may be because of the ongoing problem. But in Chennai, we were in
for a pleasant shock. We actually received more help than we got even in
Karachi, not just the quality of treatment, but the general public, " Asif
said.

"I realise that all these problems are created only by politicians. I will
probably ask the local press there to highlight the case of Sadia," he said.

Sadia not only got her hole in the heart plugged, but also got a graft from
an unknown Indian. But the little one is blissfully unaware of all the talk
of war and hatred. She is more excited with a group of children from a local
school in Ambattur who have come to meet her and cheer her up with toys,
balloons and even colourful bindis! Sporting a bindi, Sadia peeks into a
mirror and lets out a laugh from her repaired heart.

Sadia's grandmother Gulbanu, who accompanied the ailing kid, was also
apprehensive about coming to India at the time of war. "But my husband, a
retired employee of Karachi Port Trust, had travelled extensively in India
six years ago. He asked us to go ahead saying that Indians are not the type
of people who harass any Pakistani civilians.The amount of care and love we
got even from strangers in this city is something we never experienced from
our own people at home," she said.

Dr K M Cherian, Director of MMM Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, who
operated on Sadia, said this was a classic case of 'heart diplomacy at work.
The little one would be ready for school and normal routine very soon. The
child suffered from a 'transposition' of the great arteries. Her heart had
two outlets arising from a single pump and there was a big chunk of muscle
below the artery carrying blood to the lungs. This was causing obstruction
to the outflow.

There was also a large hole in the heart. When she was seven months old, a
shunt was placed, as a temporary measure. In the surgery she underwent in
MMM, valve homograft, from an Indian, was done. Other rectification
procedures, including closing the hose, were done.

Asif is now looking forward to coming back to Chennai in six months for his
daughter's check-up, when, Inshallah, there will be no Kargils or
Bandiporas. He then plans to take a little more of Tamil Nadu and India to
his heart.

Be proud of an Indian !!!

Regds
Begin.

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