Posted on 03/17/2012 4:06:00 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
Malik Sarsa Khan had lost five children before. So when his daughter Samreen Fatma (3), who was born seven years after the death of his last child, was diagnosed with liver cancer, Khan, a Pakistani driver, decided to "beg, borrow or steal" to fund her liver transplant surgery in India.
Though the government of Punjab in Pakistan stepped in to help him financially, he was robbed off at gunpoint in the Pakistani border city of Lahore while on his way to India. A determined Khan, somehow, managed to reach Apollo Hospital in Delhi. When finding a liver donor became difficult, he decided to donate 20% of his organ to his daughter.
A 10-hour surgery has cured Samreen. "Liver transplant surgery for children is not conducted in Pakistan. I was told to go to either China or India. I had more faith in Indian doctors and decided to do whatever it takes to get my daughter under their care. I cannot believe that my daughter, who barely spoke a word, used to be down with high fever almost every alternate day and could not stop itching her body and vomited blood, is talking non-stop these days. She is behaving like any other normal child," a beaming Khan said.
He added "I had lost my last child also to liver disease. However, this time I was not going to give up. Doctors said Samreen was suffering from an inherited disease and it could be because I am married to my cousin sister - a practice being followed in my family for over three generations."
Samreen's case transcended "against all odds", said Dr Anupam Sibal, group medical director of Apollo Hospitals. "It was heart-warming to see the commitment of the father to save her daughter. Samreen was very ill when she came to our hospital and we were worried whether she would be fit to withstand the liver transplant. Now, she is cured, and is expected to go back home on March 21," said Sibal, a paediatric liver specialist.
Transplant surgeon Dr Subhash Gupta said Samreen was suffering from an inherited condition - progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC). The liver, one of the largest organs in the body, cleans the blood and helps fight infections. It also stores vitamins, sugars, fats and nutrients that travel to the rest of the body. It also removes billirubin whose presence causes jaundice. The liver is responsible for making bile. The build-up of bile in PFIC causes the liver to be damaged. "This eventually leads to scarring in the liver that leads to cirrhosis or cancer. If Samreen hadn't undergone the transplant, she would have died soon," Dr Gupta said.
He added, "She was malnourished, unable to walk, eat and be mentally alert. The surgery took about 10 hours. In the 70 transplants I have done on children, I can recall only three instances when a father donated for a daughter. Though she is cured, she will have to be on anti-rejection medicines for the rest of her life."
I don't know what a "cousin sister" is but marrying them generation after generation will cause these genetic problems.
” it could be because I am married to my cousin sister - a practice being followed in my family for over three generations.””
It’s also why they’re such dumbasses.
“I don’t know what a “cousin sister” is but marrying them generation after generation will cause these genetic problems.”
As soon as I saw that more than one of his children had been so afflicted I thought, I bet he was married to his first cousin. Saw an article online that said that 21% of marriages in Morocco are between 1st or 2nd cousins and in Pakistan that number is 61%. Sure am glad they have the bomb.
First cousin marriage is legal in many U.S. states and contrary to “accepted wisdom” they are by no means all southern.
For a list of states and marriage laws concerning cousins check this out:
http://marriage.about.com/cs/marriagelicenses/a/cousin.htm
Cousin sister is any female first cousin.
From all I've read on the subject, doing it once is not the problem but when your child does it and his/her child does it, generation after generation, they run into some real problems. The pagan muslims have been doing it for hundreds of years. This guy says "three generations", more likely more than a hundred generations.
The flap a couple of years ago about that mormon cult in Texas, (The real mormons), where the men were marrying child brides also uncovered the fact that the cultists had been intermarrying for generations, as a result a lot of newborns died and many that lived were severely mentally and physically disabled.
Before the law was handed to Moses it was fairly common practice, Abraham and Sarah were half brother/sister.
If this guy is Muslim he may have just wasted his time and money. If she has sex before marriage he will just have to kill her later.
Such news is never reported in Pakistan. Pakistani establishment want to keep the hatred for India alive no matter what.
The fact that this man braved all odds to enter an enemy country and put faith on the ability and willingness of Hindu infidel society to save her daughter against all the common wisdom of his Muslim society is admirable and shows there are good people even in Pakistan inspite of the evil grip of Islam.
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