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

Coppied to Dunya New Blog

@ ( http://blogs.dunyanews.tv/?p=3245 )

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.

My Story - Karamat Masih

Karamat Masih,

From Gujranwala,

Injury Level C5,

DOB : 12-02-1974,

Incident on 13-03-1998.

                I belong to a village of Gujranwala, and I am a farmer. Once on 1998, I was going back from my work to home, on the way my foot slipped and felt down very badly and this caused my Spinal Cord Injured at level C5. Hurriedly I went to hospital but it was too late. Here I got first aid and then they referred me to Civil hospital Lahore. My MRI also said this about my Spinal Cord Injury at level C5. I was admitted there for 45 days and then I shifted back to home. One thing is more here, Doctors also operate me and placed rods and screws in my back to prevent more damage. But I think this thing went wrong because I think this operation losses my sensation from two fingers of hand.

                 

               Now I even cannot feed myself, but I didn’t give up. I am using super catheter which is directly inserted in my bladder from the place of belly button. I am totally depended to some one’s help.

               

               I am married and I have two sons, my wife is a house wife. We belongs to a poor family, I even cannot help myself how could I take care of my sons and family. Here the only thing that I have is the only hope. I pray to God to recover me and make me able to take good care of my kids, and may I able to give them a good future.

Complains....!!

             We recently met with many SCI patients, much patients complains about there bed-sores and bladder infections. This is a wast topic to discuss, not only for SCI patients but  also for many other patients who are paraplegic or quadriplegic, they can be victim of any strock and any thing with mentally or physically disability. 

           Why shouldn't we discuss with all our mates who are on bed? We think this can help us at-least to prevent many things, this is what we can only do here. At-least we should discuss this thing with other patients whom we know. Lets start it with home. :)

My Story - Israr Khan

Israr Khan,

From Islamabad,

DOB : 04-08-1980,

Road Accident on 22-05-1998.

                I belong to a village of Islamabad, I was working on a nearby place of my village where I was use to go on my bicycle. On 22^nd May I was going back from my job, there a car hit my bicycle and I got injured badly and local people hurriedly took me to the nearby hospital in my village, but it was too late, I was already badly injured in my backbone which caused my SPINAL CORD Injury. I was there for one week, after that, those doctors did my MRI where they confirmed my spinal injury. 

             I am from a poor family; which feed themselves very difficult. So, I was unable to afford my treatment. So I shifted back to my home with the hope of soon recovery.

                Right after the week of my discharge, I got bedsores and pressure-sores. My father was already a patient of Stroke. My brother was younger tthen me; he was unable to take care of me. So, I went to a day care center in Rawalpindi. There were many other patients regarding this Spinal cord injury and Stroke as well.  I am still in this day-care center from year 1998. Now this is my home. I often use to go my home (village) to meet with my family. I have urine infections every after some couple of weeks, and I also have some little bedsores but they are under healing process. I hope for the best for all you readers. And keep me in your kind prayers. :)

SCI patients in earthquake 2005 in dist BAGH

S.No	Name	Guardian	Village	Male/Female
1.00	Romala Hameed	Choudry Hameed	Kotery Najam Khan	Female
2.00	Masrat Saheen	Nasir Gardezi	Hudabari Bagh	Female
3.00	Shabir Abdulhussain	Abdulhussain	Choki thana	Male
4.00	Aqeel Haider	Safdar Hussain Banday	Imamia Colony	Male
5.00	Nazia Hassan	Hassan Shah	Sadaat Muhalla	Female
6.00	Naseem Akhtar	Muhammad Din	Choki	Male
7.00	Anwar Jan	Muhammad Latif	Nindraey	Male
8.00	Sadeeqa Begum	Nisar Ahmed	Bani Pasari	Female
9.00	Sabza Bi Bi	Muhammad Sidque Khan	Bani Pasari	Female
10.00	Khalid Bashir	muhammad Bashir	Chatar no 1	Male
11.00	Muhammad kabeer	Muhammad Nazir	Bani Pasari	Male
12.00	Saheen Bi Bi	Abd-ur-razzaq	Jaglari	Female
13.00	Muhammad Saeed Khan	Muhammad Rasheed Khan	Jaglari	Male
14.00	Rozeena Begum	Sakhwat Hussain	Jaglari	Female
15.00	Ahmed Bin Liaqat	Raja Liaqat Ali	Jaglari	Male
16.00	Noreen Haneef	Muhammad Hanif Khan	Jaglari	Female
17.00	Sazia Kabeer	Kabeer Khan	Swanj	Female
19.00	Muhammad Idrees Khan	Muhammad Feroze khan	Swanj	Male
20.00	Moti jan	Haji Noor Alim Khan	Swanj	Female
21.00	Asia Begum	Muhammad Kabir Khan	Swanj	Female
22.00	Muhammad Nadeem Khan	Mubashar Hussain	Swanj	Male
23.00	Shahida Begum	Muhammad Khalid	Swanj	Female
24.00	Jameela Begum	Mushtaq Ahmed khan	Topi	Female
25.00	Sarwat Jan	Muhammad Sadique	Topi	Female
26.00	Kousar Parveen	Muhammad Hanif Khan	Rawli	Female
27.00	Muhammad Razzaq Khan	Jafer Hussain Khan	Rawli	Male
28.00	Asia Parveen	Muhammad Ishaq han	Rawli	Female
29.00	Samia Bi Bi	Manzoor Hussain	Rawli	Female
30.00	Shahid Ishaq	Muhammad Ishaq Khan	Rawli	Male
32.00	Muhammad Maqbool Khan	Muhammad Yar Khan	Rawli	Male
33.00	Muhammad Shbraz Khan	Ali Muhammad Khan	Rawli	Male
34.00	Hanifa Begum	Gulab Shah	Islam Nagar	Female
35.00	Hanif Khan	Mera Khan	Islam Nagar	Male
36.00	Muhammad Farooq	Abdul Aziz khan	Islam Nagar	Male
37.00	Sikandar	Abdul Aziz	Islam Nagar	Male
38.00	Rashida bi	kamal din	Islam Nagar	Female
39.00	Muhammad Maqsood khan	Moj din	Islam Nagar	Male
40.00	Mehmood Khan	Sardar Ali Akber Khan	Islam Nagar	Male
41.00	Kismat BiBi	Saif-ul-Malooq	Islam Nagar	Female
42.00	Nazir Hussain Khan	Muhammad Akber Khan	Islam Nagar	Male
43.00	Said Hussain khan	Sardar Alam Khan	Islam Nagar	Male
44.00	Rani Begum	Muhammad Khan	Islam Nagar	Female
45.00	Nakhra Bi	Muhammad Kayber	Islam Nagar	Female
46.00	Zahida Perveen	Muhammad Shafi	Islam Nagar	Female
47.00	Muhammad Fazal	Atta Muhammad	Islam Nagar	Male
48.00	Muhammad Rasheed	Mango Khan	Thub	Male
49.00	Skindar Khan	Ghulab Khan	Thub	Male
50.00	Shahsta Begum	Muhammad Asif Khan	Thub	Female
51.00	Maqboola Begum	Muhammad Shabir Khan	Thub	Female
52.00	Baloor Khan	Ghulam Noor	Thub	Male
53.00	Samia Bi Bi	Assad Ali	Thub	Female
54.00	Afra Sayab Khan	Hussan Din Khan	Thub	Female
55.00	Afshan Begum	Afraheem khan	Thub	Female
56.00	Muhammad Ismaeel	Muhammad Abraheem	Dheray	Male
57.00	Rehmat Jan	Wazir mehmood	Dheray	Male
58.00	Shahida Perveen	Zulfiqar Hussain Shah	Dheray	Female
59.00	Laiaba	Muhammad Bashir Khan	Dheray	Female
60.00	Muhammad Latif Khan	Fateh Aalim Khan	Dheray	Male
61.00	Daftar Khan	Rustam Khan	Dheray	Male
62.00	Coudry Muhammad Saeed Khan	Bagh Hussain Khan	Dheray	Male
63.00	Zahid Khan	Shams-u-din	Dheray	Male
64.00	Sohrab	Muhammad Saleem Khan	Dheray	Male
65.00	Hadayat Begum	Muhammad Shafi	Dheray	Male
66.00	Muhammad Farooq Abbasi	Shah Mir Khan	Dheray	Male
67.00	Muhammad Razzaq	Sher Muhammad Khan	Dheray	Male
68.00	Suleman Ameen Khan	Muhqammad Ameen Khan	Birpani	Male
69.00	Iftakhar	Muhammad Roshan Khan	Birpani	Male
70.00	Mir Zamam Khan	Nika Khan	Birpani	Male
71.00	Shakeela	Muhammad Raza	Birpani	Female
72.00	Sadia Noor	Noor Afsar Khan	Birpani	Female
73.00	Razia Begum	Muhammad Nadeem	Birpani	Female
74.00	Muhammad Abraheem	Muhammad Nazm-u-din	Birpani	Male
75.00	Shehnaz Begum	Muhammad Sagheer Khan	Birpani	Female
76.00	Raja Naqi Muhammad	Muhammad Qasim Kham	Bani Pasari	Male
77.00	Tanveer Raiz	Muhammad Raiz Khan	Birpani	Male
78.00	Atique-ur-Rehman	Muhammad Saddique	Bani Pasari	Male
79.00	Muhammad  Ashraf Khan	Muhammad Ameer Khan	Naar Sher Ali Khan	Male
80.00	Zeenat-un-Nisa	Muhammad Azad Khan	Bani Pasari	Female
81.00	Ishrat Shabir	Muhammad Shabir	Bani Pasari	Male
82.00	Yasmeen	Manzoor Hussain	Naar Sher Ali Khan	Female
83.00	Safia Anyat	Muhammad Anyat	Jaglari	Female
84.00	Zahoor Jan	Abdul Kareem	Birpani	Male
85.00	Shaheen Akhtar	Maqbool Khan	Jaglari	Male
86.00	Qaseeda Begum	Alaf Din	Birpani	Female
87.00	Sadia Arif	Muhammad Arif	Bani Pasari	Female
88.00	Muhammad Karim Khan	Mian Mir Alam	Bagh	Male
89.00	Muhammad Ashafq Khan Mughal	Mohd.Rasheed Mughal	Bagh	Male
90.00	Sarfarz	Wazir khan	Dheray	Male
91.00	Noor Hussain	Nawab Ali	Rawli	Male
92.00	Nadia Latif	Muhammad Latif	Bani Pasari	Female
93.00

My Story - Malik Sohail Saqib

Malik Sohail Saqib,

From Rawalpindi,

DOB: 22-4-1972,

Swimming Pool incident on: May, 2000.

               On the evening of May 2000, I was in Texila with my family and friends. We planned to take a swim in swimming pool so we  reached in swimming pool and took our place to jump on Pool; right on that time I jumped on a wrong place got hit on something inside the pool which broke my backbone. I felt on that time that my lower body is not with me. So my friends bring me out of the pool, and hurriedly took me to the nearest hospital (Texila hospital), in Texila Cantt. So doctors referred me to the Rawalpindi hospital.  They placed some rods and plates on my backbone to prevent more damage. And then discharged me from hospital after 2 weeks.  

                So I shifted home, and unluckily I got bedsores after 2 months, its was going deep and deep day-by-day, so I shifted in a nearby daycare center for bedsore care. I stayed there for 1 year almost. But this bedsore is still with me. its about 12 years that I still ave that one. its main reason is that: I was sited in wheelchair first time after 6 years. These problems are still with me because I have lack of knowledge about Spinal Cord Injury, nor any one guided to for my upcoming problems. I have these regular problems:

• Urine problem, because I am using super-catheter

• Bedsores – till now it is and is not healing.

                I took super-catheter from the year 2001, till now I am dependent to this, and it irritates to too much. .What can we do now? It’s our last hope to manage our urinary system. But I still believe in Allah Almight that Insha’Allah one day He will make me self-dependent. My this brief introduction is because I want you all people to be-aware for these problems and please make your self attentive for this