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Post by Umar Tariq on Aug 25, 2007 1:20:04 GMT 5
Well let me remind everyone about the efforts of our patient care section!
let me first introduce this section to everyone......this was a new section, lead by ahmed waqas, 4th year, established this year with a purpose of helping those patients who cant afford treatment including medicines or lab tests..... moreover we also try to attend to the patients with no attendant.........we have made groups of members that go to different wards in search of needy patients.......
now this sections' achievements:
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Post by Umar Tariq on Aug 25, 2007 1:20:46 GMT 5
first achievement, this january a case of organophosphorus poisoning came to emergency at 7 am in morning in a very critical situation..... the patient was from a backward area and his attendants did not know how to tackle with all the formalities (as it was a case of suicide)........i myself stayed there for continuous 6 hours.....actually he had to be given atropine injections every 15 min and need to check his temp and bp......but due to overburden on staff they could not manage it.....so we were there to help them and we stayed there.....at the end thank God the patient was saved....but just opposite to his bed there was another case of poisoning that could not be saved because of same overburden....
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Post by Umar Tariq on Aug 25, 2007 1:22:53 GMT 5
Then there is a sad case of an 75 years old lady presented in emergency with paralysis of lower limbs……I was told that the patient has been paralyzed becz of uncontrolled diabetes and now they need to get her blood sugar level checked…when I asked his attendant why did not she took her medicines…..he told me we cant afford them…I asked him to come to our office and we would give him free medicines every week…but then he told me we are residents of Sheikhupura and cant afford coming weekly…so I told them that I would inform Ameen Sahb and he would give them medicines for whole month....i don’t know why but the patient was asked by one of the lady doctors to go to OPD Diabetic Clinic…….there was only one attendant with him and tat was his 80 years old husband……then something happened that brought tears into my eyes…….that old man went to OPD from emergency carrying that old lady on her back…..that gesture told me a lot of things about their love and about their helplessness…..when they reached OPD I was with them….i took them directly to the Diabetic Clinic….but the doctor them was very harsh…..he asked me why are u with these people…..he said if in the way that lady dies then would be declared responsible…….if that old man loses balance and that old lady falls down then u would be responsible…….when I asked him to examine the patient….he did not even touch her and said as she is an emergency case becz of paralysis so I cant examine her…..take her back to emergency…….now I arranged a wheel chair for her….thanks to Ameen Sahb of our office…..when I took her back to emergency I was once again told by that doc to carry her again to OPD to the Diabetic Lab……I carried the wheel chair and the old man was with me,………when we reached there…….no one was there……..we kept on waiting for them……finally we returned back to the emergency and I asked the doctor don’t they have any blood sugar level test system in emergency?? I was told that this doctor was a new one and this was his first day in emergency……anyways I am still not sure about that…..after that another lady doctor came me and assured me that they would take good care of them…..now it was my lecture’s time and I returned to college……later when I returned to emergency after 3 hours…I was told by that doctor, “ Us bechari patient ke sath buht bura hoa, I don’t know why but use kisi aur doctor ne discharge kar dia, Halan ke us ki haalat stable na hoyi….but….. I am sorry mai us ka khyal nahin rakh saki” Then I found that old man in OPD…he was looking for me over there to thank me……I asked him about his wife…..he told that she has gone back home with some other relatives…..i took him to office and gave him medicines for 1 month and he left……then I don’t know why he or that lady did not come to office for next 4 months….i also asked Ameen Sahb about them…..one day I saw that baba ji in medical outdoor…..i asked him about his wife and why did not he come again to take medicines and he told me she had died and then remained silent……..i was shocked……….sometimes u r so helpless………u want to help someone but at the end, it is Allah who gives life….and it is not necessary that your efforts to help or save any patient would always prove fruitful……but our job is to try……and simply try……..Inna Mal Ammala Bin Niyat
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Post by Umar Tariq on Aug 25, 2007 1:28:43 GMT 5
Then there was a child in south medical ward…….hmmm……this was a very very interesting case……the child was about 11 years old and was from Mureedke………I came to know this child when I was taking his history……he was a patient of asthma… and had barrel shaped chest due to excessive cough……and had no attendant with him……..he was treated very badly in the ward……in the sense that his bed was changed daily……...one day he had no bed and was lying on the floor…….he was there for about more than two weeks……I enquired about him from the doctors……I was told that this patient presented to OPD without any attendant…….he was diagnosed to have asthma……..he was prescribed inhalers but he did not have money to buy them………he insisted that he wants to get admitted in the ward………but the doctors were not ready to admit becz first…they don’t admit asthma patients in wards as there I no need of it as they only need inhalers……..second there was no attendant with him…..then I asked the child…….he told me that he had run away from home for treatment……his parents did not pay much attention to him…..he has been coughing very badly for past 5 years……so much that he has now got a chest shape abnormality but his parents did not take him to doctors……they take him to Hakeems and Sufis but there was no improvement…..one day someone in his village told him that there is a very big hospital Mayo Hospital in Lahore…..he ran away from his home…..he also told me that he has never been out of his hometown before but left his home……..and reached Lahore finally……….here he kept on asking people about the Mayo and reached here………but the doctors here said they wont admit him…….but he kept on insisting……so finally they admitted him but sorry to say still he was not taken good care……when I asked the doctors about his treatment they told me his sole treatment is Inhalers and they would be sufficient for him……..but as he cannot afford them so they just give him an injection or tablet whenever there is an attack of asthma…..i was told that the child suffered from severe attack about every 2 days……I tried my level best to get some money and finally I got about 2000…… I gave that child I remember about 3 ventolin inhalers, some clothes, some food to eat and some money to travel back home………I also offered him that I can drop him to his home on my way to Rawalpindi but he told that now his parents have come to Mayo…….and he would return with them…….he asked me one thing…..ke “Umar Uncle ae tin pump kido tikar chalan ge?” I said they might be enough for 2-3 months….then he asked what after that………..would I become the same patient after that…….from where I could get inhalers after……my parents cant afford my treatment…….i promised that boy that one day I would start a section for free inhalers and I promise u that I would try to start it within 3 months ad u can come to me there and I would give u free inhalers every month aur sath hi tumhari Lahore ki bhi sair ho jye gi but he did not believe that I would be able to provide him free inhalers every month.
At that time I myself also was not sure…..if I cold do it or not but thank God….then he called me in May….and finally I told him about our office that he can get his inhaler form here monthly……now I met him last week…..he was very happy and said now I can play in my village with my friends and he also told me a joke that whenever his cough starts he says one thing….. “nus jao pump aa raheya hai” and he takes the puffs…
I was very happy to see him and believe him to be the success our Asthma section becz he was the single boy who becz of whom I decided to start our asthma section……
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Post by Umar Tariq on Aug 25, 2007 1:31:04 GMT 5
first achievement by the incharge of this section ahmed waqas himself.....there was a patient who was prescirbed some medicines but could not buy it.........the medicines cost about Rs. 1000......we provided the patient with the medicines........kept the receipt with us for the record.
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Post by Umar Tariq on Aug 25, 2007 1:31:34 GMT 5
well there was a female patient in North Surgical Ward.....i dont know the disease but she was prescribed injections of about 5000 which she could not buy......umar mukhtar of 2nd year contaced me and tole about the details....at that time we did not have that much money in our funds.......so first we tried to arrange them....thanks to Ahmed bhai......now ahmed bhai came to me in hostel.....ahmed bhai and i went in search of injections but could find only 2 of the prescribed 5 injections..we were told we could buy the rest of injections from a far off dispensary.....when we went to the ward..... we gave the injections to a doctor there and he gave the injections to the nurse.......the nurse asked us who are we people and why we are helping that lady....when she came to know all about us...she was amazed and told us that they had the injection but they could not give them without some special permission...anyways she assured us that she would arrange her remaining injections and give them to her as well..........
thanks to Umar Mukhtar of 2nd year....
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Post by Umar Tariq on Aug 25, 2007 1:41:58 GMT 5
CASE UNDER CONSIDERATION A 13 years old boy Ali Raza having family history of hemophilia presented to us with bleeding from lesion on tongue.His bleeding profile showed prolonged PT and APTT.He was given 2 pints of fresh frozen plasma (1 of which was provided by SPWS).He responded well to it.It was planned to do biopsy for polypoid oral growth on monday morning for which SPWS provided factor 8(thanks to efforts by Dr Asma mehmood,umar tariq and me) on sunday night (infused by Dr Ali Rukh).Bleeding profile following it showing PT within normal range while APTT was still prolonged.The polypoid mass shed off spontaneously on monday morning and there was no bleeding.So no biopsy was done and he was discharged on the command of professor of ward.Now he will report us in OPD for followup. At time of discharge Ali was able to talk properly and also smile
SPWS CONTRIBUTION
FFP--------- -----550pak Rs Lab test (bleeding profile)---- ------1,000 Pak Rs Factor 8----------- --------- ----3,563Pak Rs
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Post by Furqan Sherazi on Aug 25, 2007 9:04:38 GMT 5
nice going spws
great work umer bhai and ahmed waqas bhai
may ALLAH bless you
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Post by Asmaa Ul Haque on Aug 27, 2007 2:06:02 GMT 5
AOA,
great ACHIEVEMENTS patient care section!!
All this has increased my pride to be part of SPWS
i will inshaALLAH try to do myself and encourge others to keep on raising the bar of great traditions of SPWS
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Post by Asmaa Ul Haque on Aug 27, 2007 3:21:48 GMT 5
i ll request all members or no members should atleast once do work for patients like in above cases really helping other persons who r total stranger to u but depends on u, looks at u with hope gives u happiness and their shine in their eyes tells u all how grateful they r in their hearts. I cant explain u in words how much happy i was when i was able to arrange factor 8 for hemophilic child although i only contributed a little part of my life/time to him but it meant a world to me. so i ll strongly recomend that all of u should give it a try
in previous years SPWS has been doing such activities like Ali rukh bhai once mentioned that in their period they used to arrange for dialysis i think we should request all the senior post holders and members to tell us abt their success story/achievement also.
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Post by Umar Tariq on Aug 27, 2007 22:19:33 GMT 5
ya right! i also request all our seniors to share their such patient care experiences with us!
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Post by Umar Tariq on Sept 3, 2007 16:20:24 GMT 5
Just forgot to mention my first two but unsuccessful experiences of patient care…….
The first one I remember……..i was asked by someone to help a patient in South Medical Ward…he was suffering from tetanus and was placed in a dark room…now I came to know he was a mechanic by profession and now he needs about 35000 for injections…I was told by a lady doctor of south medicine ward that that patient needs 5 injections…each of 7000 but he cannot afford it. I was told by a doc that he can wait for the next 3 or 4 days…but if he does not get the injections he would die…at that time I did not know properly how to arrange and how to access people for donations…it was my first experience…I went to different classes…requesting them for donation…then I went to some of my Relatives…but at the end could not gather money for more than 1 injection in 2 days…anyways when I reached back the south medical ward to give 7000 for the first injection….i was told that the patient had expired….i was shocked…literally…the reason being….may be before that I could have never thought of human life being so cheap…all my life I kept on believing that 30,000 is nothing and no one can die becz of this meager amount…but I was wrong…may be the reason was…Allah has blessed all of us so much that we cant even imagine the shortage of money…atleast such a small amount…that was the first time that I started taking interest in these poor patients….trying to understand their poverty….and the more I tried the more I became surprised….all of us cant even imagine the REAL poverty while sitting in our air-conditioned rooms and sleeping on our expensive beds….same was the case with me…..but that day I came to know what REAL poverty is… a patient dying of only 35000……before that I always used to believe that no one can die of becz of shortage of money….i always thought It happens only in movies but believe me whatever u see in the wards of Mayo Hospital is much worse and heart-throbbing than any fiction and here u understand the reality of a lot of things and I believe the wards of Mayo are the best teaching places where u learn not only medicine but some of the best lessons of the life.........
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Post by Umar Tariq on Sept 3, 2007 16:20:48 GMT 5
Then the next case….was….i remember after my attempt for contribution in that last patient’s treatment…the next day…a house officer from south medical ward…I think her name was Dr.Munazza came to me and asked me to help her in collecting funds for another patient of bone marrow transplantation in AFPGMI… I was told that the patient came to Mayo few months back and was admitted in South Medical Ward….but he required bone marrow transplantation…for which he was referred to AFPGMI….and now the patient is there and it costs about 12 lac for the treatment and they cant afford it….many of the junior doctors of Mayo in different wards including SMW, EMW, Cardiology are trying to collect funds to send them to his attendants….now I also tried to do whatever I can… I was finance sec of SPWS at that time…last year…I asked vice president…faheem bhai about it and they donated Rs.1000 from SPWS funds for that patient…the reason being last year the total amounts of funds we collected last year was 24833…so in a way we paid 5% of our annual donation…anyways then faheem bhai and I went to Dr.Azra of SMW and told her that we would try our level best to do whatever we can….then I accessed some of my relatives and collected about Rs. 10,000 in a week… now when I wanted to send the donation I went to SMW in search of Dr.Munazza… came to know that she has now shifted to services…..then got her number from someone…contacted her….she told me that I can give the donation to another doctor of Cardiology dept….i don’t remember her name….the next day I went in search of that lady doctor to cardiology ward and came to know she is on leave and would return in a week….anyways I kept on going there everday in her search…when I met her she gave me the name, bed no and other details of the patient and told me that AFPGMI has set up a small account for his donation and all the donations go there…..the next 4 days were my tests….now after my tests… I went back home in Rawalpindi and gave all the donation to my father and requested him to deliver them to the 2IC of AFPGMI…. Then I went to sleep….i still remember my father called me after 3 hours and told me that I am sitting in 2IC’s office and he is saying there is no such patient….i was shocked….then I talked to 2IC myself and told him all the details of that patient that I knew…then he remembered and told me…that the patient had expired about 2 months back….and then a tear rolled down from my eyes….i was told that his attendants could collect only 1 lac rupees donation and there was about 4 lac rupees donations from others….then I put down the phone and I kept on thinking that all the docs who were collecting funds for that child kept on thinking that he was still live and they used to send donations for him…..then I kept o wondering kya faida? Have all these donations been wasted? Have all the hard work of all the docs been wasted? Have all the hopes for that child been wasted? Kept on thinking about this…but then got an answer after some while…no the efforts….the prayers….the hopes were never wasted….atleast this work made all of us come together for a noble cause for helping and supporting a poor child…. Waise bhi its we the humans who have to try and its He, The God, Allah to give us the results.....and also INNA MAL AMALA BIN NIYATA.... May Allah bless all of us with a wish of helping other humans in pain....(Ameen)
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Post by Asmaa Ul Haque on Sept 6, 2007 0:08:24 GMT 5
these r not unsuccessful stories, infact they have big success hidden in it.
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Post by Asmaa Ul Haque on Sept 6, 2007 1:31:14 GMT 5
SPWS not only itself doing a great job in helping patient but also playing an important in inspiring all the people surrounding. my personal experience in this regard is..... i was in ward preparing ward case when i heard 2 docs talking to each other that if pt on the next bed didnot get CT scan done by that day dicharge him(Left without medical advice).so after ward finished i asked doc why pt is not getting CTscan done?reason was family problems and monetary.i introduced SPWS to them,told them abt it various activities and offered them that SPWS can arrange CT scan for that pt provided u confirm that he is really deserving pt.initially doc were really surprised how students can manage all such activities then they asked to give some time and that they ll confirm me by evening.when i again contacted them doc informed me that CT scan ll arranged for that patient next day when i went to meet pt. doc told me that seeing SPWS spirit of patient welfare we doc of the ward were so impressed that we all decided to arranage CT scan for that patient on our own behalf.This is a great complement for society i saw that professor during his routine round was discussing the case of the patient with the fellow docs Then i left ward with delightful thought that pat who would have been otherwise discharged will now be able to get proper treatment all because SPWS made a slight initiative while other people inspired by it carried out its task ie Welfare of our people/patients.
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