Daily Mail brings smiles to quake affected kids
By Uzma Zafar

When a child is born, everyone rejoices while the child wails. His cries confirm that the child is normal. However, when the kids are the ones who've suffered from a huge natural disaster like the earthquake on 8th, exactly a week from now, and the kids have no strength left in them to raise hue or cry, well, the whole nation cries as it's heart bleeds for the youth which is, any nation's heartbeat!
Since the natural disaster, everywhere there's space and even at those places even where there isn't any left, the Capital's hospitals including Poly Clinic, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Capital Hospital and Shifa International Hospital, are flooded with patients of multiple injuries from as close as Margalla Towers that collapsed within the city to as far as Balakot, Bagh, Rawalkot and Muzaffarabad. They say that the journalists don't have a heart as their field requires them to kill their hearts, but a little look at the patients and then the DM team revealed that we too, have a heart and do feel for everyone, especially the kids who've suffered in the tragedy, as it visited PIMS Hospital, here this Wednesday. Walk into the Child Center of PIMS and one would see a children moving along you, hungry for love. They ask you that what's in your bag. You give them biscuits and cash but they refuse and say that they but need toys to play with! That touches the heart!
Isolation Ward of the hospital reveals 20 patients hit with the quake and various others between ages 2-12 or even 13. The quake victims admitted there have suffered from head injuries and abdomen through leg injuries due to buddy bones crushed in the debris. Each patient has a different tale to unfold!
The nurse on duty, when asked about the young patients, told The Daily Mail team about a brave lady who was teaching her class in the lawn when the earthquake occurred. Her makeshift school walls and roof caved in. She went out and saved her students instead of looking after her mom and child who lived nearby and after her rescue efforts were over, she happened to see that her mom had died while her kids were critically injured. This is the spirit of sacrifice that has bound our nation together!
Canadian High Commissioner; Jacquie Collins, Health Minister; Nasir, Ayesha Kazmi of Friends of Children and Saroels of Netherlands Embassy along volunteers of various institutions as well as DM volunteers visited various parts of the hospital at various times of the day while the later are mobile throughout.
The 9-year old girl who has lost her memory, in Emergency Ward; Saima who has lost her eyesight and who's family still awaits a CT Scan, 9-10 year old Danish who has been mentally injured and who's family's awaiting test results, or the child who's foot has caught gangrene because of lack of timely medication, when The Daily Mail team distributed toys and gifts among the kids, for a moment, even the injured who had lost their smiles, their lips curved up in joy and they got a new hope to live!