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Post by Umar Tariq on Sept 6, 2007 5:21:03 GMT 5
good job asma! this is the spirit that spws needs! keep it up!
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Post by Asmaa Ul Haque on Sept 8, 2007 22:17:57 GMT 5
Latest success of patient welfare/care section.
45yr old Sughran Bibi w/o Fatah Mohammad, resident of multan, contacted spws via a relative of Umar tariq.Sughran bibi had along history of illness.It all started in feb 2007 with complain of chest tightness,dry cough initally doc of nishter hospital multan treated on lines of pneumonia but later she developed severe dyspnea, weight loss, productive cough,fever with rigor and chill and also had 2-3 episodes of hemoptesis she consulted doctors both in nishtar hospital and privately, she was told that due to diabetes mellitus her condition has worsen and she has developed tuberculosis,so she was given ATT,but her condition didnt improved rather unfortunately b/c of ill-feeling related to drugs her treatment was discontinued for sometime.
Seeing her ill health(excessive weight loss and highly fluctuant ESR) she was then referred to Lhr- Gullab Dyvi Chest Hospital by her physican.They confirmed diagnosis-ie she suffers from T.B but medcines were not given to her.
When she contacted SPWS Sughran bibi was weak and had fever.SPWS asked her to stay for time in Lhr so that we can conduct lab test again and take second opinion from doc in TB Chest department in mayo.Since it was saturday evening and OPD of TBCD was closed by that time so Umar bought medicine for that day after confirming from SR In emergency. On Monday morning SPWS got her complete check-up from TB department They advised to carry out sputum culture test for AFB for 3 consective days so as to check the efficacy of prior 3 month medication,again Sugran Bibi being mother wanted to return home to her young children SPWS convienced her that its for her own betterment that she stays here and gets her lab test and checkup done from Lhr.She agreed to it.For next 3 days she went to deposit early mornig sputum to TBCD lab and Alhamdolilah result came out affirmative (AFB -ve)
during her stay in Lhr SPWS was in constant contact with her and Alhamdolilah she was responding to medicine very well.she no longer had complain of fever(previously she had to take pandol regularly for hyperpyrexia and body pains),dyspnea,vomiting esp early in morning,indigestion or cough.Inshort there was marked difference in her condition from the first day i met her and last day when she left for multan/home.
SPWS CONTRIBUTION
Myrin-P -------315Pak Rs(80 tablets)
Vita-6 -----------100Pak Rs(60 tablets)
Lab test -----------free from mayo TBCD lab
1000Rs ----------travelling-ticket to multan for 3 ie Sughran bibi,her daughter Mumtaz and son
(they had no money left with them as they were not expecting to stay for such a duration in Lhr)
3packs of Glukil----antidiabetic-------ie 120tablets
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Post by Umar Tariq on Sept 15, 2007 18:39:03 GMT 5
aoa everyone i feel very proud in informing about three more recent achievements of Patient Care Section...........here we go...........
about a week before a senior bhai came to me with a 3rd year junior (name kept confidential). He was suffering from Hepatitis C for the past 3 years but dd not get the treatment as he could not afford it but now his situation was worsening a bit. Few complications were starting. Moreover he was earning his living himself by doing various jobs to pay his fees. I told him that we pay out of Zakat but he told that there is no one to support him. I confirmed all this from few other people. Then after a bit discussion with asma and some of the seniors, we decided that we would help that boy. He told me that he needs Interferon Injections....which come with the name of Uniferon by the company Getz and its price is about 60,000 for the whole 6 months course. I called Sir Shahzad Khan, our dear worthy senior in Getz, he gave me a concession of 21000 right away and now the new price was 39000 for the whole 6 months course but at the same time he also did us another favour.........he said u can buy the injections monthly and pay us 6500 for each month so that u dont replenish your funds suddenly. He was also kind enough to offer us free PCR of this patient in future. then we took that boy to Dr. Shahid, the new Gasroenterologist and Prof. Mushtaq Haroon, Prof of Medicine. Both of them examined him and confirmed us that he needs to start the course of interferon as soon as possible. Then i was told by a few people that the Govt also gives free interferons for Hepatitis. But for that we need to go to Social Welfare Officer and Zakat Committee of Mayo Hospital. We went there and introduced our society to them. They were very much impressed by our work. Moreover, they also gave us a few of their forms that we can refer our poor and deserving patients to them for zakat or for expenses of any treatment or lab test that is beyond our limitations. They also told me all the detail about this hepatitis treatment made free by the Govt and advertised all over in the media. The lady In-Charge there, i dont remember her name....told me that a few days back 200 poor patients of Hep C went to the Chief Minister's Office and did a protest against Govt....as a result Chief Minister granted full 6 months for those 200 patients but about the rest there are no interferons given by the Govt. Now if any new case has to register, he must submit his name to us after a lengthy procedure of doing all the formalities of filling about 3 forms, one from Nazim, one from Doctor and one Himself, then his name would be registered and most probably he would getv his interferon course after 3-4 months but they dont give interferons to any patient within few weeks time. We also went to Dr. Shahid for his expert opinion whether our patient can wait for few months or not but then he told us that the interferons provided by Govt after 3-4 months time are not trust-worthy, he told us that we can find interferons like those from the market for about 10,000 full course as compared to 60,000 of Getz but they are not that much effective and he wont recommend those for our patient. At the same time our patients' condition was worsening and he was very much eager to get the treatment as soon as possible. So after a long discussion on all this situation, we decided that we would go for Getz interferons. So finally we ordered the Getz people to provide us with a one month course of interferon to start with. We made a payment of 6500 to Getz via draft and we also took a letter from Getz for payment. they told us that they would deliver us interferons on Friday but yesterday I called Dr. Shahzad and he told m that now Getz has 3 days off Friday, Saturday and Sunday because of Ramzan so the delivery cant be made on Friday....he assured us that he would make sure that we receive the delivery on Monday or Tuesday.
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Post by Umar Tariq on Sept 15, 2007 18:41:39 GMT 5
Now the next case..............both me and asma got busy in the same time because of our few class tests and we could not accomodate much more patients due to overburden of studies and most of the other members and post holders are also busy in prep of send-ups. Now there was a patient, referred to us from the same zakat committee and social welfare officer's office, calling me again and again..........he told me that i am a junior teacher in Mandi Baha Uddin and my daughter needs a hearing aid.....and i cant afford it.......but due to overburden of study and tension of the test i refused to help him at that time....i requested him to come again after a few days when me or asma would be free so that i can help him then.......but then he told that he is poor enough and cant afford the expenses of travelling in between Mandi Baha Uddin and Lahore. At the same time the boy of previous case was sitting with me.......he was very much impressed by our welfare work and was very thankful to us.........so he offered himself for the help of this patient. First of all i ordered him and everyone else that for all the patients of our patient care section that before spending any money or time on any of the patient, we would ask that patient to go to AMS and get his signs and our stamp from his office as a recommendation to us that he is a poor and needy patients and he needs our help......so in a way he would be referring the patient to us....the advantage being only.....atleast AMS himself would come to know what services SPWS is providing to the patients and one day if someone asks him about us....atleast he can tell them about our services. Moreover we also keep a photocopy of that signed and stamped chit of the patient. After completing all this formality, that boy took the patient to few doctors and got a confirmation that his daughter really needs a hearing aid....he also assessed himself that the patient was poor and deserving for Zakat.....then he went to the market and found the average price of hearing aid to be Rs. 7500 .....but then i went to the shop and told the owner that this patient is not our any relative and we are helping him merely with the relation of humanity and all the money we would pay him would be from our Zakat funds. He immediatly gave 2000 Rs concession.....so we provided them with an hearing aid and now the patient and her parents returned back happily to Mandi Baha Uddin. They also called us twice and thanked us for our services. at the end another poor and needy patient helped.......thanks to that boy
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Post by Umar Tariq on Sept 15, 2007 18:42:51 GMT 5
Then there is another fake case about which i forgot to tell u people. these patients are not always poor, needy and innocent.... about a week before a female patient came to me requesting that she needs money for film of MRI and some of the lab tests. when we inquired about her....we told her that we cant give her money as we dont pay cash to any patient...we can buy a film for her and get her MRI done but she wanted to get the money..so we said sorry to her. but then we came to know that she is habitual and a fraud...she comes regularly to Mayo to different people with the same excuse....and has been helped by many people previously for the same MRI film...Pity!
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Post by Umar Tariq on Sept 15, 2007 18:43:25 GMT 5
there is another 70 years old person referred from the Zakat office for another hearing aid......but first we got him checked from our doctors......to confrim his need of hearing aid........and then we provided him hearing aids. The bill was Rs.5500.
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Post by Umar Tariq on Sept 15, 2007 18:49:43 GMT 5
there is a lady who came to us with upper GIT bleeding, chronic liver disease, hep c, endoscopy revealed upper git bleeding and she cant afford a sclerosing needle of worth 3000 becz he had only one son to support her and his monthly wage was 3000....we have also enertained her by providing her sclerosing needle Injectra by Mediglobe at the expense of Rs. 2850....
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Post by Umar Tariq on Oct 13, 2007 5:31:41 GMT 5
there are two cases of PCR who cant afford it.......for which i called Dr. Shahzad....he told me that he cant provide us with a free PCR facility for all the patients referred by us becz there is a company rule that all the patients who would buy Getz interferon....Getz would get them free PCR....he can help us for free PCR for 1 or 2 deserving patients but not more than that.......then Ali Rukh bhai told me that Mayo is also doing PCR free of cost but then we came to know that u receive the results after a long delay of 90 days.....then we contacted Prof. Muneer, Head of Pathology Dept and Dr. Ihtesham, Asst Prof of Pathology Dept. Prof Muneer has given us a pad of his private Patho lab and told us that he would provide few of the lab tests totally free of cost and the remaining tests with a special concession to the patients referred by us with our stamp on their pad.
Market Rate for PCR is Rs. 2800-3000 Dr. Ihtesham said he can arrange PCR for Rs. 1800 but finally Prof. Muneer of Pathology was kind enough to offer us his services for PCR at the most cheap rate in the market for only Rs.1200....so now the PCR of two patients has been done and we have also paid his laboratory Rs.2400 for that. Thanks to Prof.Muneer!
Hats off to SPWS and congrats all the SPWS members on yet another bunch of successes for SPWS!
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Post by Umar Tariq on Oct 13, 2007 6:22:35 GMT 5
Aoa everyone! the patient care section is back with a new story but this time its a different type of case...a different type of story then all the previous ones...i am not sure whether to call it a success or a sad ending to our efforts....whatever it is......it was our just another attempt to help others in pain..... Shama Anti, referred to us by our very dear Rizwan Basharat bhai, Vice President SPWS 1993-94 She presented to OPD of Mayo Hospital about a month back with no clear complaint.....it was a lesion...a swelling...or some cancer. It was a lump growing day by day and extending towards left...exerting pressure on adjacent organs...esp lungs....so dyspnea being the most prominent complaint. Due to dyspnea...patient had to lay down most of the time. SPWS kept on following her from the first day......but the doctors could not diagnose what the problem was....Later she was diagnosed to have metastasis in Liver. She was advised to get ultrasound guided FNAC. Due to its complications, the slides and the reports were discussed a lot by the pathologist....there were normal hepatocytes with definite anaplastic cells of unknown origin. Furthermore, CT scan reports showed abnormality in posterior wall of stomach. the exact report was " Multiple hypotense areas in both the lobes of the liver, massive lymph nodes in the coeliac region and lesion noted in the posterior wall of the stomach." The role of SPWS was nothing else but guiding the patients and their attendants to the proper place, going with them for their check-up and inquiring her condition from the doctors regularly... Then she was moved to the convalescent center referred by OPD... later on she was sent to the oncology ward of Mayo hospital...but the situation and the surroundings of the oncology ward are very very depressing...even both we could not withstand that and got a bit depress on our way back from that ward. Looking at the condition of patients around her, Anti Shama also got very depressed and started crying and kept on insisting that she wants to leave the hospital and want to back to her home.....but we were there for her moral support and convinced her by giving her the right advice of staying there as it was for her own betterment. Later she was advised for CEA and gastroscopic biopsy....then we were told by the doctors over there that she is in hopeless situation...later we got her examined from few other doctors and they also themselves got her checked from few private doctors but all in vain.... she was advised by one doctor to take appointment from Shaukat Khanum memorial hospital....but most of the doctors said even that is of no use....they would just get their money spent on needless tests as nothing can be done about her.... this was the point when she and her attendants decided to leave the Mayo Hospital and go back to their home in a small village along the Ravi river. Now she is back home and SPWS is in constant contact with her. She is taking homeopathic treatment now and has been advised by the Homeopaths not to take any medicine of Allopathy.....now she is in a lot of pain.....cant even sit down...she is always lying on bed.....she has developed haemorrhoids, flatulence and severe constipation. We know that we are moving towards a really sad end in this case but nothing can be done about it except praying to God....and on behalf of SPWS i request all of u to pray for Anti Shama in this holy month of Ramzan.... The role of SPWS in this case was nothing else than guiding the patient and taking her to various docs and labs....all the treatment and tests were provided free of cost by Mayo Hospital.....we were just trying to take good care of her.....we might have not provided any financial support to the patient but we were always there for her.... providing her and her attendants moral support....it is not always a pill or an injection that can alleviate the pain of the patient...sometimes even the smile of a caring and loving person can make him foget his pains for few moments and we just tried to do that in this case....we tried to do whatever we could in this hopeless case....and finally when we lost all our hopes we are here in front of you requesting all of you to raise your hands in front of God for an old woman's pain and sufferings and pray to Him that He bless her with His blessings and make her healthy once again (ameen). This day of Eid(happiness) let us not forget who are not having eid(happiness), lets us not forget their pain and sufferings....lets pray for them this Eid....
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Post by Asmaa Ul Haque on Nov 4, 2007 19:31:38 GMT 5
AOA everyone update on SPWS patient care section Firstly,a young widow lady living with his old father and son who supports her family by working as housemaid She had Hep C contacted SPWS for PCR Thanks to Dr Muneer PCR was done on special concession on the request made on very short notice.
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Post by Asmaa Ul Haque on Nov 4, 2007 20:14:49 GMT 5
i hope u all remember 13 years old Ali Raza who had hemophilia presented to SPWS in August and how (by the grace of ALLAH Almighty) via chain of events SPWS provided him with FFP,factor8 and carried out various lab tests
He is again admitted with complain of oral and nasal bleeding and has requested SPWS to help him financially to arrange fresh frozen plasma for him. Alhamdolilah help has been provided
considering Ali's case he will be requiring FFP after every 2-3 months and factor 8 before any operational procedure so he has given permanent patient card
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Post by Asmaa Ul Haque on Nov 4, 2007 20:19:37 GMT 5
further projects in progress are
1) ...a patient needs help for lens replacement
2)....a pt need help to get hearing aid
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Post by faleha31zafar on Nov 17, 2007 23:01:27 GMT 5
a.a everyone the efforts done are greatly appreciable may Allah help us all in doing this tremendious work for mankind. Umar bhai keep it up
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Post by Umar Tariq on Nov 19, 2007 1:52:03 GMT 5
thanks faleha for appreciating......at the same time dont forget asma and others....it has always been a combined effort....probably they played their role more than me......u also did a great job always whenever and wherever it was required......it has always been a team effort.....and next year Insha Allah when u would start going to wards.....u would Insha Allah also do the same job and continue this noble work alongwith ur other dedicated class-fellows........way to go faleha, asma, ayyaz, furqan, faleha, shabbar, faiza and everyone else involved in SPWS, congrats to all the SPWS members!
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Post by Asmaa Ul Haque on Feb 29, 2008 11:02:21 GMT 5
during our long examination break we continued to carry various patient welfare activities.
one of the case is worth mentioning
A 50 yr old lady reporterd to us with the complain of gradual loss of vision in her functioning eye.we got her checkup done from eye department and she was told that she needed catarct surgery done.when she heard this we could clearly see that she looked worried and there was clear sign of fright on her face.we assured her that its nothing serious and doc are quite trained, above all u can get it done free here.listening this she started crying we explained her the procedure and tried to comfort her. once she was fully comfortable with us she told that she is a widow and earns her living by working as house maid,when she was just 25yr old her husband died all her life she worked hard to educate her 7 sons who r now married, working and all earning well but no one cares/looks after her or help her financially.she kept on saying that people consider sons to be the shelter for old age but look at me my sons dont even acknowledge my hard work and efforts i ve put in to raise them.we told her that u dont worry we ll take care of u and accompany u during ur stay in hospital. on listening this she told that she had the other eye operated in one of the free eye clinics but she lost her sight so she is afraid to go for free treatment. When her mistress came to know that the old lady needs cataract surgery and we students trying to help poor desrving people she tried to arrange money for her but came short of 1000Rs which spws paid her operation went fine and she is able to see the world clearly again above all continue working to meet her needs
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