APPEC management, with mutual consent of all APPEC members, has decided to launch a France-wide campaign for the request received from Mr. Afzal Khan (PhD Scholar in France and a member of APPEC). An excerpt from the original email well summarizes the scope and sensitivity of this project:
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A relative of mine in Swat was shot at by Taliban last year in the month of May with chemically contaminated bullets. Allah Almighty saved his life but he got serious wounds in the abdomen and in the upper part of his right thigh. He remained in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar for 6 months and spent a lot of money to cure his wounds but the progress was very slow. He then shifted to Swat, as his financial conditions were not allowing him to stay any more in Peshawar. Even after one year, his wounds are still green and even cannot support the stitches. Now he cannot afford any more the medical expenses of his cure. He has already sold most of his belongings and if the situation remains the same, he will be compel to sell his house as well. His financial conditions are reached at such a stage that now he is unable to afford the expenses of local hospital. There is no one in his home to earn and his only one son is of the age of 14. All his near and far relatives have supported him so far as well, but they have now also withdrawn their hands. He needs regular and prolonged medication to come back to the normal life.
As APPEC’s member, I am contacting you to know if APPEC can do something in this regard. To help him, I think we need to raise around 1000€ to support him in this miserable condition of health and wealth. I can provide further information if anyone would like to verify.Regards
Afzal KHAN
Laboratoire des Materiaux et du Génie Physique (LMGP)
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The target for this project is set to a total of EUR:1000. APPEC aims at streamlining a maximum number of contributions for collecting this sum. Initially,we are setting a soft deadline for the campaign but we encourage the donors to please make their contributions, ideally on urgent basis, in order to achieve the target ASAP.
Donations could be made through any of the methods detailed at:
www.durabledevelopment.com/appec/donations
Alhamdulilah, the target has been successfully achieved – a total of EUR 1550 has been collected.
(updated: 22nd of June 2010)
This project is no more open for donations. BEFORE DONATING, please contact treasurers.appec@gmail.com, to confirm if your donation(s) could be accommodated.
First call for donations forwarded to:
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psabroad@googlegroups.com
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First call aslo forwarded to:
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Aoa,
I’d like to contribute but before doing that I’ve following concerns:
1. Why is the target specifically set to 1000 euros? I mean is it done after consultation with a qualified doctor in this regard?
2. What is the surety that 1000 euros will make the victim perfectly fit and healthy?
I’m raising these questions because one of my relatives lost his life after several years of medication. He was also a victim of a bullet. Thanks in advance for to-the-point answers.
Best regards,
Abdul Baseer
walikum salam
Well, first of all, as I have already explained in my first e.mail that he is not the fresh victim and its a year long story. Alhamdulliah, the doctors have found proper antibiotics for the bullet effected wounds and the wounds are now recovering. One major step left is the orthopedic operation of installing some metallic rods in his thigh.
Now come to the two questions raised by Abdul Baseer!
1) 1000€ is just an estimated cost for his orthopedic operation and medication for his bullet effected wounds (which are now in final stages). As far as the doctor consultation is concerned, so everyone knows the cost of operation varies from doctor to doctor, from hospital to hospital, and of course according to the quality and price of the metallic rods used to support the bones. So I proposed this 1000€ for this project with the consultation of my uncle who is the close observer of the said victim. The 1000€ will be an enough amount for consulting an average orthopedic surgeon and buying an average quality materials for orthopedic use and other miscellaneous expenditures.
2) Surety of perfect health and the matter of life & death, are something beyond the humane perception. Its the Allah Almighty, who knows better. However, his present condition reveals that he will start a normal life soon after this major orthopedic operation.
With best regards
Afzal KHAN
What I get from the original post is that treatment procedure has not been finalized and any surgeon or any facilty has not been contacted to discuss the estimates?
Yes Tayyab you are right, there were not sufficient details in the original post. But I think the recent post from Afzal has provided some more details regarding choice of the estimate.
Sorry for the late reply as I was out of internet for couple of days. If someone needs the detailed medical documents, I can also try to provide those. But, as I have already explained that the victim is not a fresh one, but he is under cure for one year. And everything going on is of course according to the concerned doctors. The final stages left are to wait for his wounds to cover up (the progress has been started since couple of months) and then to finish with an orthopedic operation. And the call of 1000€ was for these upcoming final steps.
Afzal KHAN
Afzal! Thanks for further clarification.
May Allah bless him with complete and fast recovery… Aameen
2nd call for donations forwarded to list under comment (mmluqman/May 14 2010 ).
Alhamdulilah, we managed to achieve the target in-time.
May Allah reward all the donors, APPEC team and everyone who has somehow contributed to the campaign. And may Allah shower his blessings on the victim and help him to recover soon (ameen).
Has the donations been transferred to the victim? Please update status.
We are in process of transacting the collected amount to the victim. The status would definitely be updated as soon as the money reaches the victim.
kindest
MM.Luqman
Bank transfer of the collected funds to the victim account in Pakistan, has been initiated. Ordre de transfer is available on request.
The victim has received the money and hopefully he will go through the process of operation in the next couple of weeks. (an excerpt from email of Afzal KHAN)