Dr Ruth Pfau shall always be remembered for her selfless devotion to her cause and services to humanity
LAHORE: Ever since her arrival in Pakistan during the 1960s, Dr Ruth Pfau devoted her life to the troubled masses of Karachi.
She started her fight against leprosy once she visited the Lepers’ Colony, in I I Chundrigarh Road, and started treating leprosy patients in huts. The Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre was founded later in the same vicinity (which later branched out into tuberculosis and blindness prevention programmes) that contributed to social work for the leprosy patients and their family members.
Tributes pour in for Dr Ruth Pfau
She also served as the adviser on leprosy to the ministry of health and social welfare of the government of Pakistan in 1979. Honoured with numerous national accolades, Dr Ruth Pfau shall always be remembered for her selfless devotion to her cause and services to humanity. As a result, in recognition of her work, I request the government and especially Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to announce September 9th, the date of her birth as ‘National Leprosy Day’ in the country.
Dr Zeeshan Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, September 12th, 2017.
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