Edhi stable after minor surgery

Edhi undergoes a 20-minute minor catheter change procedure to clear his dialysis line, which was choked previously

KARACHI: Pakistan’s most loved social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi underwent a successful surgery at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) on Tuesday, though he remains in the intensive care unit (ICU).

“The operation was a success. He is still in the ICU, but he is responding,” Bilquis Edhi, the wife of Edhi, told The Express Tribune Tuesday afternoon after the short operation.

“I told him to open and close his eyes and he did accordingly. So I think he understood well what I was asking him to do,” she added.

Edhi underwent a 20-minute minor catheter change procedure to clear his dialysis line, which was choked previously. He has been on dialysis since 2013.

Humaira Faiz Muhammad, a staffer at the Edhi Foun­dation and tending to the social worker at the SIUT confirmed Edhi was doing better than before. “I met him a while back. He is doing better and is in his senses.”

Earlier, Bilquis said that when Edhi was taken for the operation, he was not running any fever neither did he have high blood pressure, which were good signs.

Edhi became bedridden after the Edhi office was looted by thieves a few months back.

“He was so shaken by the theft that he kept on saying that “Mera maan torr diya inn honay,” [They broke my trust in them],” Bilquis recalled, adding that since then Edhi just “looks at the side-cupboard in his room and cries all the while.”

Published in The Express Tribune, June 29^th, 2016.