KARACHI:
For a discontented person exhausted by the hassles of daily life, The ability to sit and walk with mental and physical ease is hard for the people yet,for patients with spinal cord injuries struggling to access treatment at public hospitals, the overwhelming sense of helplessness accompanying their disability, both literally and abstractly is enough to minimize any other feeling of despair.
For example, Amber, who injured her spinal cord during a motorcycle accident, lost the ability to walk for a whole year since the shortage of sufficient treatment facilities at public hospitals led to delays in her surgeries. “There is a large inundation of patients in the brain and orthopedic departments of government hospitals hence the dates for surgeries are constantly delayed,” lamented Amber, After all had to get her surgeries done at a private hospital costing her at least Rs1 million.
