Hello everyone, so today, my university mates and I decided to make a small difference and bring a smile to some of the world's most beautiful individuals. That notion suddenly came to us, and we wondered what we could do about it, so one of my pals offered to organize a visit to the Thalassemia center.
This word was absolutely new to me and many of my colleagues, and I'm sure many of you haven't heard it too, so Inshallah, I'll tell you how my heart was shattered after listening to the individual who established his Thalassemia clinic and what this sickness is all about.
Let's incorporate that into the procedure. So first and foremost, we had to prepare some boxes to deliver to the children who had been admitted to the hospital. And for that, I went to the Super Store, where we bought goods for the kids such as juice boxes, biscuits, jelly, balloons, and a variety of other items.
I built 50 boxes entirely on my own, with the assistance of my family members, so compliments to them as well. I made 48 boxes and divided the biscuits, chips, drinks, and other items evenly among them. And after constructing all those boxes and taping them together, my hands were completely clogged.
We all walked downstairs of the hospital after distributing the boxes, and there we met the person behind the Thalassemia Center, and we learned that the Thalassemia Center is named after that man's son [Kashif Iqbal].
Muhammad Iqbal, the creator of the world's largest Thalassemia Center, can also be seen in the photos above. He had a son when he was 22 years old, whom he named Kashif Iqbal, and his body stopped producing blood when he was just 9 months old.
So, because Muhammad Iqbal was young and didn't know much about those things, he assumed that it was typical for children to be sick and that he would recover soon, but when his health worsened, his parents took him to a prominent doctor, who informed him that he had Thalassemia. As a result, his body has stopped producing blood on its own, necessitating the usage of two blood bottles in a month for the Kashif Iqbal.
Kashif Iqbal was still obtaining two bottles of blood every month when he turned 14; according to his father, his hands were filthy from the needles getting on his palms twice a month. When his health worsened in 1996 when he was 14, he was taken to a number of hospitals, but no one had a solution.
Then he learned that at the time, England and Italy were the only places where a bone marrow transplant could be done, and while it was still not complete therapy, it would have given him long life. However, upon further inquiry into that location, he discovered that they had required 90 lakhs rupees (about $51217 USD) even at that time.
But he claimed that he was able to raise the funds and transport his son to Italy for treatment, but that when he arrived, the physicians there refused to treat him. And that was undoubtedly the startling moment, even though my entire class was crying at the time.
The reason for refusing to treat him was that a normal person's fiber level in their body is between 80 and 180, but because he had been receiving bottles of blood since childhood, his fiber level was at 7000. As a result, they requested that the fiber be removed from his body.
However, the procedure of eliminating that fibre from his body was extremely painful, as a 20 cc needle had to be placed on his stomach for 5 hours, and he had to do it three times per day, for a total of 15 hours on his stomach, and the process for extracting iron lasted 5 years.
However, as the iron in his body was being extracted, his body began to use blood more frequently, and within a month, he began to receive 5-8 bottles of blood, causing his iron level to rise to 11000. His skull grew larger, his teeth and nails began to crumble, and he died in 1996 when he was 16 years old.
That was a very terrible moment for all of us, and we were all heartbroken after hearing it. So we all decided to donate blood for Thalassemia patients because it could be the greatest gift they could receive, and they also told us that our blood was destroyed on its own every three months and that the body produced new blood on its own every three months, so why not donate blood every three months and give someone an extra 15 days of life?