A 19-year-old Pakistani girl, Ayesha Rashan was admitted to Chennai's MGM Healthcare hospital with a severe case of heart dysfunction
A 19-year-old Pakistani girl, Ayesha Rashan was admitted to Chennai's MGM Healthcare hospital with a severe case of heart dysfunction. After a wait, they were informed that the little girl would receive a heart transplant from a 69-year-old man. The surgery happened in January this year in Chennai free of cost and the girl has been discharged last week and is doing well now.
The surgery was supposed to cost 35 lakh rupees but was fully funded by Aishwarya Trust, the doctors and the hospital itself. This was supposed to be good news but people in Pakistan are not happy about it. The 69-year-old man is a resident of Delhi who was declared brain-dead and had his heart taken out and transplanted to Ayesha Rashan. But this has infuriated some Pakistanis because it was a sin for Ayesha, who is a Muslim, to accept the heart of a Hindu man who has “bowed down before Hindu idols”. The heart inside her belongs to a Hindu and therefore, it is a sin. According to them, the girl should have embraced death rather than going through the heart transplant procedure.
I cannot imagine how some people put their religion and religious beliefs ahead of someone’s life. For them, their religion and its orthodox practices are more important than somebody’s life. They are saying that organ transplant is haram and against the wishes of Allah. While we should be celebrating the lengths Science has progressed and congratulating the doctors, the hospitals and the trust in making this surgery possible, both scientifically and financially, some people are lamenting because of absurd, baseless reasons.
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