HUMANITY AND HOPE WIN



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NEWSMAKERS - Noor Fatima

Humanity and hope win

By Manash Pratim Gohain
The Pioneer
Sunday, July 20, 2003

Last Tuesday chronicled a rare battle where both India
and Pakistan were involved; but it was a battle of heart,
where the battery of surgeons led by paediatric surgeon
Rajesh Sharma undertook a marathon six hours surgical
correction of 30-month-old Noor Fatima's heart at
Narayana Hrudalaya, Bangalore.

Noor, with her parents, on the "dosti bus" (after the
resumption of the Indo-Pak bus service) crossed over into
India on July 11. Noor was suffering from Ventricular
Septal Defect (VSD) with pulmonary stenosis - holes in
the heart with obstruction of blood flow to the lungs.

The relentless pouring of diplomatic statements never had
a respite, but Noor opened her heart to a new symbolism
to the Indo-Pak relationship - the message for peace and
healing of hearts across the war torn borders.

The participation of India in the forthcoming SAARC
summit in Pakistan and the likes had to make way as the
media preferred its space for a bright "Noor". Inspired
by the "Dosti Bus", Noor's father Nadeem Sajjad initiated
the "Dosti Fund" for the poor children of Pakistan who
are suffering from heart ailments. The package of
goodwill and money had already made the fund richer by
over Rs 1.5 lakhs.

The spill over of the goodwill gesture is amply evident;
there was an anonymous donation for four-year-old Arbaaz,
the son of a daily wage earner from Bangalore. Another
anonymous donor gifted Rs 1.4 lakhs for Noor's treatment,
which was declined by her parents as they said that they
could bear the expense for their kid's recovery.

It is worth mentioning here that unlike Noor, six-month-
old Babar from Pakistan died last Wednesday. He came to
India via a circuitous route - Karachi to India via
Dubai. The doctors are of the opinion that the long
journey weakened the kid.

Nadeem Sajjad, Noor's father, a soil engineering
scientist, is overwhelmed at the goodwill the common mass
of both the countries harbours for each other and wished
for a regime of love and friendship in South Asia. Many
may find the media hype and attention on Noor's itinerary
to India a little hard to digest. But, nothing is
overdone as both the countries are following every breath
of Noor, because this is a statement straight from the
heart of the street of both the countries. The common
people, the spine of the states, harbour no sadistic
ecstacy over bullets drilling into our hearts. But they
do like to share an open heart surgery which brings smile
to a couple, a relationship which envisages low
inflation, high forex growth and a vision which embarks
upon a regime of humanity.

As Noor leaves India and grows into tomorrow's citizen,
one hopes that petty borderline struggles will not
obstruct her vision and close her heart for India.

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