New Delhi, March 9 (TNS): Pakistani couple earnestly hoping for a phone call confirming their Indian visas so their ailing two-year-old son Maier can be taken to Noida, India for heart surgery, Indian media reported.
They learnt of his cardiac issue a few months earlier and took him to Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), where Dr Mehnaz Attique recommended treatment in Noida, India, by Dr Rajesh Sharma, a paediatric cardiac surgeon, said Jawwad.
AKUH also has paediatric cardiac facilities but Dr Sharma’s success rate is far higher.
“Dr Mehnaz urged us to take our son to India as soon as possible because his condition will deteriorate with time, and will soon start affecting his other organs,” he said.
Dr Sharma took a keen interest in the case and issued the medical letter to facilitate the Indian visa. Jawwad completed the prerequisites and filed an application. He is still waiting for a response.
The visa delay led to Dr Sharma sending another medical letter on February 5. “Now it is March and we are still awaiting a response from the Interior Ministry of India.”
The worried father in December also made a Twitter account in an attempt to reach Sushma Swaraj, Indian minister of external affairs, encouraged by her previous record of issuing visas to Pakistanis in need of medical treatment.
Courtesy: Times of India
