Anwer
is 14 years old and hails from Mehar in Sindh. He is the eldest
child of four. He has two younger sisters and a younger brother.
His father works as a daily-wage labourer.
At the age of seven, the bright and always cheerful Anwer
began complaining of severe pain. Diagnosed at the Jamshoro
hospital with bilateral kidney stones, he underwent an operation
to remove the stones. The operation cost his father 6,000
rupees.
Yet, despite the operation, Anwer’s health continued
to deteriorate until eventually he ended up at SIUT in April
2006 with kidney failure. At SIUT he was immediately put on
dialyses and this saved his life. He will however, have to
undergo regular dialysis until a suitable donor can be found
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But Anwer is just one of the
estimated 8,000 patients across Pakistan awaiting transplantation
and requiring regular dialysis every single year.
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WHICH IS WHY WE NEED YOUR
SUSTAINED SUPPORT TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO
PROVIDE THE BEST MEDICAL TREATMENT MONEY CAN BUY TO
AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE – AND ALL OF IT FREE!
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This
Ramazan please give your Zakat
to SIUT.
All of the treatment - all of it free
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In Pakistan, 28% of the 8,000 patients who require
dialysis every year are treated at SUIT.
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Every day we carry out over 500 dialysis sessions.
In 2006 alone we carried out over 120,000 dialysis sessions
and in 2007, we expect this number to grow substantially.
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SIUT is the only medical centre that provides
dialysis to its patients absolutely free of cost. Each session
costs us approximately Rs 1,000 per patient per session and
annually we spend over 120 million rupees on providing free
dialysis services to all our patients.
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