My Story - Sarmad Tariq

Sarmad Tariq,

From  Islamabad,

Injury level ,
Incident on .

      Sarmad Tariq is an athlete, story-teller or motivational speaker, life coach & a writer. After meeting a swimming accident at the age of 15 he was left shoulder down paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Sarmad believes that his physical confinement is the reason to his spiritual liberation. Resilience being the key to his success.

       Among regular achievements he also holds the world record of longest non-stop drive by a quadriplegic and drove his hand controlled car for 33 hours, covering a distance of 1,847 km from Khyber to Karachi. On 30th January 2005 he was the first ever and only wheelchair bound athlete in Lahore Marathon, by finishing the race distance of 42km in seven and a half hours he qualified to represent his country in ING New York City Marathon 2005 and made history for Pakistan by returning with a finisher’s medal. Author of a fiction novel "Natural Gases by Shuntoo".

His passion to find his hidden abilities and stretching those to extreme limits has inspired many.

I cried alot after watching this..!!

My Story - Nouman Khan

Muhammad Nouman Khan,

From  Islamabad,

Injury level T8 & T9,
DOB is 05-03-1990,
Incident 20 September 2010.

          I live in Islamabad and I was a college student. My dad is settle in Islamabad. He is a business man on incident day my dad called me to come to office. I wore my new clothes and took my younger brothers to schools after that I am about to coming back home at my way this insanely incident happens which changed my life forever.  I called by myself home and told them I am injured and after that, called to 1122 they took me to pims hospital Islamabad those people which are there and the rescue team hurt me very much. But now this pain is bound to me I have to face it. At the same day my family came and they decided to shift me to cmh hospital Rawalpindi and admit me their. After 10 days I had operation and they put clips in my back bone my level is t8, t9.

          I am older in home others are younger than me. I am having physiotherapy to reduce spasm and do other exercises to maintain health.I am using air mattress to prevent from bedsore I had sore on ankle only.I am starting my studies and I was athlete in college so I shift my effort others. But never gave up. I joined my extra curricular activities like hunting. I am using nylon Cather to pass my urine and using a commode chair for bowel passing. I am expert now doing that. I hope I will stand one day on feet and bow to ALLAH Almighty.

          Never gave up on any condition Allah Almighty never put such burden that His person can't passed it.

My Story - Muhammad Aqeel

Muhammad Aqeel,

From Islamabad,

Injury level T5,T6,

DOB: 01-01-1997,

Incident on Dec,2001.

                  I belong to a village of Islamabad named New Shakriyaal Pinorhyaan, on incident day, my two brothers, me and my one cousin, were on way to our home.( in our village Illiot  Murree).   The occasion was to attend  our grand  mother's funeral.  On the way we got an accident and our vehicle crashed near Illiot market. My elder brother died on the spot.I was injured badly. On the other  hand   my   brother   and   cousin    got minor scratches.  They  shifted  me to Civil hospital Murree. After first aid  they reffered  me Civil  hospital Rawalpindi.  They  kept  me there for 15 days. Doctors told me I got  injured  in  spinal  cord . I  was  not  agree  with operation.so after somedays the discharged me from hospital and sent me home.

                After two months I got bedsore. My brother took me to Central hospital Murree road. Doctors admit me to four months. My bedsore couldn't cure. My brother took me to "this care center" Rawalpindi.Here some doctors are available so I felt easy and cured. I have one little bedsore here INSHAlLAH it will recover quickly.

              I am also using catheter which sometimes caused me infection but it recovers with medicine. My condition  is still same as I was on first day of my accident. My parents died some years back. now I am living with my brother, he feed us, now all burden is on his shoulder. Life is what we people are serviving. I am not rejecting this reality of this. Hense I am hopeful for future. remember me in your prayers.

Spinal Cord Injury | Seeks attention in Pakistan

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A majority of Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) can occurs due to any reason of incident such as: road accidents, falling from buildings, swimming accidents, sudden falling, suicide attacks, any explosion and natural disasters (earthquake, tsunami, flood, etc.) or many other reasons. The spinal-cord is the part of our brain which carries the information and signals to/from all the body parts. This thing makes the brain to make order to all body parts on our will, so if this spinal-cord breaks from the center then the brain is unable to receive and give the orders to the body parts.

This condition makes the patient as paraplegic or quadriplegic. Spinal Cord Injury patients result in permanent disability and paralysis. Most of this paralysis may involve the loss of movement in the arms and legs, known as QUADRIPLEGIA, as well as and other parts of the body, mostly below the area of injury. A spinal cord injury, that affects the body’s lower extremities from the stomach and legs is known as PARAPLEGIA.

A General overview on Pakistani SCI Patients

In Pakistan, the Spinal cord injury (SCI) patients are in thousands of numbers and the all are hopeless to get 100% recovery so that they can again able to walk on their own feet. In Pakistan, the patients of SCI increased up to 600 patients at the same time, due to an earthquake of October 8, 2005., which is the highest number ever reported in any disaster in the whole world. But this is the only figure of that disaster, but in whole there are thousands of patients in Pakistan who are affected to this type of injury. Some patients belong to villages and some from cites also. But in general figure round about 83% didn’t get well medical cure and the rest only 17% patients got available cure.

The male-to-female ratio is approximately 1:3 (26% : 74%). The majority 78% are 16 to 39 years of age. If we discuss these figures as level vise into the Pakistani patients then it shows as figures like: 62% had lumbar-level injuries, — 25% had thoracic-level injuries,9% had lumbar-level injuries, and a few had sacral-level injuries. All patients developed urinary tract infections; 15% had bowel complaints; 2% developed deep-vein thrombosis and 0.05% developed wound infections. Following are the some complications which the patient of SCI usually complains and its percentage w.r.t all SCI patients:

This should be clear that these figures are from the patients of Sindh, Punjab, KPK, Baluchistan, Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir.

Seeks Attention

Awareness of potential complications in patients with paraplegia is essential to care planning in Pakistan. The priorities include skin, bowel, and bladder care and provision of prophylactic heparin. SCI patients require comprehensive long-term planning from the government side so that they could also pass there life in the normal way so that the nation could also utilizes their talent and God-Gifted potential.

Only 3 proper rehabilitation centers are at present working in Pakistan: 1 is in Rawalpindi namely AFIRM (Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1 in Peshawar, and the other 1 is in Islamabad namely NIRM (National Institute of Rehabilitation and Medicine), are playing and important role to make these people mobilized and to help them to pass there life in a well-mannered way. Like these center, in all the cities and towns of Pakistan there should be such type of centers which can help the patients of SCI to improve the living standard and able to play there their part in the progress and prosperous of their beloved country Pakistan.

The Patients are scattered to all over the country and there should be a government recognize office there all patients must be registered in daily basis so that government could easily facilitate them with the basis heath facilities and make them able to play their role in the country’s progress and so that they could improve the living standard.

The patients from the villages and towns even don’t know the levels of there injuries and its precautions, so that they could be alert for their future living standard. There should be such form of physicians who can guide them and make them alert from many long-term medical problems this thing mostly makes the patient’s current condition to its worst end. If they have its knowledge then at least they can reduce the chances of kidney failure, bladder condition, pressure sores and many more things.

All citizens of Pakistan must know the growing rate of SCI injuries patients so that they could aware to the patient’s medical structure and help them morally to place them in first. This act can also make awareness to avoid the reasons of SCI do that it could reduce the number of patient annually.

That was the simple go through about the Spinal Cord Injury patients. Keep them in your kind prayers.

Are You Also Ignoring??

         

          The basic human society develops with the fact that they interact with each other. This interaction with other fellow beings helps to integrate and develop a relation which then creates a society full of relations and affection. But in these societies, those who have weak interactivity or who face problem to interact with other people remain behind and are neglected and thus have a less affectionate community.

          Among these stand the disabled persons as they have less mobility and interaction in the society growth thus they remain neglected and during the development of the societies they remain unseen.

          This ignorance start from the home itself and right from the mothers lap. Most of the people will say the mother can not be biased, but as the matter of fact it is true. When there is a disabled child the parents start to think differently for his future as compare to the non-disabled child, because they think this child needs extra care and support from them. Yes ! he do need special care but the parents think it themselves and as they have no experience of disability they miss peculate as to how to deal with the needs of the disabled person. They seem to take for granted about the limitations of the disabled child that is they seem to think that every daily life chore is impossible for the disabled such as even if he needs water and his mobility allows him to do so the love of parents overtakes and as to provide him an easier access they tends to stop him to try to reach out for the water and try to help him by providing it in his bed. This seems to be the love of parents at extreme but in the long way it turns to be a big problem for the disabled child.

          As he should learn to work for himself to become independent and should try to understand his limitations right from the start as this will help him adopt a life style suitable for him but this easy to reach approach tends to make him real lazy and in the end he seems to think that this is really impossible for him and then he will have to learn the hard way.

          Then come the time of schooling and education. First of all in some cases the parents tend to discourage that the disabled child should go out as they feel it harsh for the child because he will not feel comfortable to see all other kids to be non-disabled and will face a psychological trauma and isolate himself away from other kids. This will end him sheepishly hiding from every one and his self confidence will never develop. At the same time the accessibility also plays major role in this isolation.
At this level the inclusiveness will not only help the disabled child to grow but will also help the non-disabled child to understand disability issues right from the beginning and they will gel together really good. Thus the discrimination will decrease considerably.

          The disabled persons who complete their studies against all odds face another issue that is the discrimination in finding jobs. Firstly the access is an issue and then the psychological understanding among the non-disabled persons for the disabled persons is not convincing. The employer on seeing a disabled person considers it bravery that with this disability he has reached this far but his company can not afford a disabled person for reasons. Even if he gets a job it is considered that he is given a job to sympathies and not because of his credentials.

          Most of the time on seeing a disabled person people think it to be a sin of the parents that the child is disabled but one thing is worth mentioning here the Allah Almighty says that “He never punishes someone for the sins of his parents or child”. Is it that the Creator is not treating every one with equality?
No obviously this flaw is subject to the societal rules. Allah Almighty has created every human being with different qualities but with equality. No physical condition or disease is subject to the sin of some one himself or his parents. This life is an examination for the next life and He checks His creations by disease, hunger, wealth, children and disabilities.

          Now the question is how can all these problems solved? The answer is to include disabled person in the society on equality basis and there should be no discrimination regarding physical or mental health of an individual.

My Story - Shehzad Masih

Shehzad Masih,

From Sialkot,

Injury Level  L2,

DOB : 25-11-1980,

Incident on 10-06-2004.

                I belong to Sialkot, I was a employee in a factory, once I was going back to my home after the job time, on the way, some thieves stopped me and try to rob me, and then I did little bit resistance and then they fired on me. They fired me on my belly and this goes to my backbone. I felt down when they hit me. I don’t know how much time I was there. After some time the police vehicle was on the way for its routine’s duty patrolling.  They  picked me up and take me to the local hospital and then called my home to reached in hospital. So doctors did operation of my belly and removed the bullet, they kept me for 28 days in hospital. After that for the treatment of my spinal cord they shifted to the another private hospital in the Lahore. Here they did operation of my backbone and then convinced me that I will recover 100% soon. But I didn’t felt anything positive after couple of weeks then doctors did second operation of my backbone, but nothing went good enough.

                So they kept me there for a month and then shifted me back to home. Many time I faces the bedsores and then they recovered as time passes.

                I am married and I have one son. My wife is house wife, she cares me a lot and to my kids also. My brothers help me financially. I am living with my mother and brothers. I don’t have any kind of recovery for my spinal cord injury. I am using internal catheter for my bladder management. I am hopeful with the mercy of Allah that He will recover me very soon.