Myanmar refugee founds relief from pain at CMCH

Ludhiana, May 30, 2016: 35-year-old Kabir Ahmed, a refugee from Myanmar who migrated to India in 2013 was in sheer abdominal pain and went to different doctors in Delhi, and found that he had kidney stones. Poverty and political unrest at Myanmar forced him to leave his country and enter India as a refugee.

He thought of living with the suffering of pain due to the kidney stone, until he found friends to bring him to Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, last week and he was operated the next day. He narrates the ordeal he went through from last 2-3 years because of severe pain he went through, according to him he was not able to afford the costs of the hospitals and treatment, but, CMCH, Ludhiana being a charitable hospital offered him state-of-the-art treatment on concessional rates for the poor and underprivileged patients.

According to the Kabir Ahmed’s treating Surgeon, Dr Kim J Mammen Associate Director, CMCH and HOD Urology Department], “The Urology Team at CMCH went an extra mile to treat him and remove the kidney stones using the key hole minimally invasive surgical technique at very subsidized cost. Through a small key-hole, an endoscope was introduced to break the stone and remove the stone fragments”. Kabir Ahmed went on to reiterate that his friends in Ludhiana were very helpful to alleviate his pain and suffering. India had been sympathetic to political refugees and this was an opportunity for CMCH to provide subsidized medical aid to this unfortunate political refugee from Myanmar.