11 year old Mohammad Mustafa, son of a poor farmer, is a student of 5th grade and lives in Larkana. Mustafa’s teachers had expressed their concern to Mustafa and his father about his poor reading and writing abilities which they suspected was due to his eye sight. The father, who was illiterate, …
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Fazl ur Rehman – Our 25 Millionth Patient
11 year old Fazlur Rehman was in the first grade when he started losing his vision. He damaged his cornea while playing with his friends gradually lost his vision completely in one eye. However his father, Ghulam Mustafa, a factory worker earning just Rs.8000 a month and with five more children …
Our 24 Millionth Patient – Sobia Abdullah
10 year old Sobia came to LRBT’s Tertiary Eye hospital in Korangi, a deprived area of Karachi, in a painful state. A thorn had pierced her eye earlier. Her father Rashid a pickup driver by profession earned Rs. 10,000/ month that was barely enough to put food on the table for his family of 10. He …