Non-Muslim Saviour of a Muslim Country
Year is 1960, leprosy runs rampant in Pakistan. Even worse, it is considered a curse by God. People don’t touch lepers, believing their condition to be contagious, they aren’t treated, they are condemned to colonies created for them away from general population. There they wait to die in isolation, in agonizing pain, with flesh rotting & falling off. If there is a fate worse than death, that is it. Their plight is unlikely to change, no hope is in sight, as far as the eyes go. But unbeknownst to them, God has other plans.
That’s amazing.
Wow. Learning about Sister Pfau was humbling and I’m thankful that you shared this!
She was an amazing person. She was inspired to become a doctor after watching her brother succumb to a lung infection when she was young–she believed he could’ve been saved if someone had treated him sooner. Clearly she went on to take that lesson to heart and to save other lives!
>Sister Pfau’s anti-leprosy war gains momentum, a journey from a small hut in lepers colony grows to Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre, where patients not just from all of Pakistan but from Afghanistan too arrive for treatment. Her drive against leprosy gets government’s attention, she is made advisor on leprosy to ministry of health. She collects donations, goes to areas where no one steps, does everything in her capacity for her noble cause. The restless struggle bears fruit, in 1996, Pakistan becomes one of very first Asian countries to control leprosy.
She sounds like an amazing woman.
She really did well, there were only 342 cases of leprosy in Pakistan last year.
That’s amazing! The ignorance of some societies is astounding and religion can never be an excuse. People should be better and this lady sets an excellent example and highlight the good that religion can do as well.
Honestly bruv, please dont critisise someone who devoted their life to save others.
“Then population of 127 million” plus the fact that you don’t give a current population makes it sound like she went to the country and murdered everyone with the disease
One nun army doing the work of a country what a legend lived a long and full life too.