Imagine watching a movie, only to have the television suddenly muted, and you can't find the remote control. That would be an unsettling and frustrating experience for the average person. But this...
Hamza is nine years old today. In his short life, he has been diagnosed with blood cancer, told there is no cure, then brought to the Aga Khan University Hospital, where he underwent six months of can...
Hamza was born a seemingly healthy baby. Zeeshan, Hamza's father worked as a rickshaw driver, and had limited means but Hamza was a much-cherished addition to Zeeshan and his wife's life. However, as ...
24-year-old Waseem Hussain could not imagine that a mundane day on 28th Nov 2019 would change the course of his life. Standing on the rooftop of his house located in the suburbs of Gulshan-e-Iq...
14-year-old Usman Rasheed wears the scars of pain and suffering behind his beaming smile. His skin has been pricked far too often, his eyes have shed many tears, and he has had sleepless nights; mo...
Behind his smile, Muhammad Faisal, a 35-year-old resident of Orangi would seem like an ordinary man, made of ordinary life experiences age. He is a father of five children and the only child of his ...
Shahzain, hailing from Thatta, was born one month premature and for the first three months of his life, remained extremely frail. Shahzain suffered from malnutrition and struggled with maintaining...
There is a Chinese proverb that says, “When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy." Muhammad Ali knows only too well how true this is, having been part of his young son's journey of struggle and...
Gul Bano is a fighter. At 32 years of age, she has seen more than her share of hardships and adversity. Married at the age of 15, she discovered that her husband was a drug addict who eventually ...
Aqeel Sarwar did not have the faintest idea that a seemingly-normal fever would turn into one of the most testing trials of his life. When he went to a local consulting clinic to get a diagnosis o...
Hassan’s eyes opened, gazing at his parents’ glowing and doting faces. A curious and naughty child, he observed the world, wonder in his eyes, a smile on his face. For his parents, he was perfec...
“My name is Muhammad Ijaz Khan. I am a Muazzin and teach the Quran to children. Three years ago, Allah (swt) sent us a little angel, Muhammad Moiz, who was the joy of our hearts. I would dream of ma...
“My name is Faisal, I worked in a garment factory for a monthly salary of Rs. 15,000. I was supporting my mother and three brothers. One day, I developed severe abdominal pain, which went on incr...
It was an ordinary day in the life of Owais Shahjahan. He had gone out of his house to run some errands as usual. He was going about meeting and greeting not knowing that his day was about to chan...
“Look at me,” says Waqar smiling, “Can you tell that I have had a major operation and have a prosthetic in my leg?” From a small village in Dadu district, Waqar Ahmed Narejo is enthusiastic about re...
Seventeen year old Muhammad Siraj Chandio smiles and taps his foot nervously as he narrates his story. “Three years ago, when I was fourteen, I started getting a fever and felt very weak. I felt ...
Five-year old Asad Javed was playing with his friends, when a random act of bullying changed the course of his life another young boy hurled a stone at him. The stone hit Asad's right eye and he lost ...
In December 2020, a team of surgeons, nurses and support staff at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi successfully separated conjoined twins—for the second time in AKUH’s history. The twins, M...
Babar smiles at the one year old baby crawling and babbling on the floor near him, and says “Can you imagine this mischievous little boy being so sick that he would cry all day and night long?” “Two...
His glinting eyes and mischievous smile are extraordinary. This is because ten-year-old Samir Ahmed has just survived a terrifying ordeal hydrocephalus or fluid buildup in the brain. Being the seco...
“If a patient witha heart problem boards my rickshaw, I refer them to Aga Khan University Hospital” Arifullah was so moved by the efficiency, competence and compassion of the service he ...
Thirteen-year-old Aisha smiles shyly while sitting between her parents. Her father narrates how in 2015, Aisha, then a fifth grader, started having a pain in her foot and began limping. She started...
"Come to the Aga Khan University Hospital and have a check up done. The excellent facilities here are available to everyone." Sadaf Ahmed Sadaf Ahmad was having a shower one day, when she felt...
“It is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts…” (The Quran 2246) Seven-year-old Taha Ahmed was of a delicate build but when he smiled, his eyes would lit up. Taha hailed from Shah Faisal, K...
Yasmeen Haider Baloch was diagnosed with hepatitis C by a local doctor in her native town of Malir. At the end of a six-month course of treatment, her symptoms such as mouth ulcers and stomach and ...
“God and the healthcare staff at AKUH have granted me a second chance at life,” said a thriving Shaukat Qasim Agaria 11 years after unexpectedly discovering he had cancer. A shop salesman on a m...