Pakistani Mother Teresa Dr. Rathfau

 Today is the fifth death anniversary of Pakistani Mother Teresa Dr. Rathfau

 Born on September 9, 1929 in Leipzig, Germany, Ruth Katharina Martha Faw's family was forced to flee from Russian-occupied East Germany after World War II.

 Arriving in West Germany, Ruth Faw began studying medicine and graduated from Mainz in 1949.

 The desire to do something in life brought Dr. Ruth to the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary, a machinery organization, and she made the service of humanity her life's purpose.

 In 1958, Ruth Fow, at the age of 30, saw a documentary film about a leprosy patient in Pakistan.

 (Koh Achut is a disease in which the patient's body begins to decompose, pus forms in the body, and with it the human flesh begins to sag and fall down).

 A strong smell also comes from the body of the Kouhi. To protect their organs, the Kouhi wrap their hands, tangos and mouths in a large piece of cloth.

 This disease was considered incurable, and when a person was infected, he was thrown out of the city and he died in the desert.  By the 1960s, there were thousands of cases of tuberculosis in Pakistan.  ﯾﮧ ﻣﺮﺽ ﺗﯿﺰﯼ ﺳﮯ ﭘﮭﯿﻞ ﺑﮭﯽ ﺭﮨﺎ ﺗﮭﺎ ' ﻣﻠﮏ ﮐﮯ ﻣﺨﺘﻠﻒ ﻣﺨﯿﺮﺣﻀﺮﺍﺕ ﻧﮯ ﮐﻮﮌﮬﯿﻮﮞ ﮐﮯ ﻟﯿﮯ ﺷﮩﺮﻭﮞ ﺳﮯ ﺑﺎﮨﺮ ﺭﮨﺎﺋﺶ ﮔﺎﮨﯿﮟ ﺗﻌﻤﯿﺮ ﮐﺮﺍ ﺩﯼ ﺗﮭﯿﮟ ﯾﮧ ﺭﮨﺎﺋﺶ ﮔﺎﮨﯿﮟ ﮐﻮﮌﮬﯽ ﺍﺣﺎﻃﮯ ﮐﮩﻼﺗﯽ ﺗﮭﯿﮟ ﻟﻮﮒ ﺁﻧﮑﮫ ' ﻣﻨﮧ ﺍﻭﺭ ﻧﺎﮎ ﻟﭙﯿﭧ ﮐﺮ ﺍﻥ ﺍﺣﺎﻃﻮﮞ ﮐﮯ ﻗﺮﯾﺐ ﺳﮯ ﮔﺰﺭﺗﮯ ﺗﮭﮯ، ﻣﻠﮏ  (In Pakistan, leprosy is considered incurable, so a patient with leprosy or leprosy has two options: die or commit suicide.)

 During 1960, the missionary organization sent Dr. Ruth Faw to Pakistan.  After coming here, he saw the dire condition of leprosy patients and decided not to go back.  He started a small free clinic set up in a shack in the Leper Settlement on McLeod Road behind the Karachi Railway Station.  Established as the "Mary Adelaide Leprosy Centre", this hospital treated leprosy patients as well as assisted their families.  Meanwhile, Dr. IK Gill also joined them.

  In view of the increasing number of patients, a regular clinic was purchased in 1963 where lepers from Afghanistan and not only Karachi were treated.  After the increase in work, small clinics were also established in other areas of Karachi and the staff for them were also trained by Dr. Ruth Fawhey.

 To control leprosy, Dr. Ruth also visited remote areas of Pakistan and trained medical staff there.  In order to control leprosy in Pakistan, he collected a lot of donations from Pakistan and Germany and established leprosy treatment centers in many hospitals in Karachi and Rawalpindi.  Apart from this, he also played an important role in setting up the National Leprosy Control Programme.

 Due to the selfless efforts of Dr. Ruth Faw, her colleague Sister Barrens and Dr. I. K. Gill, this disease was eradicated from Pakistan and the World Health Organization, a subsidiary of the United Nations, included Pakistan among the first countries in Asia in 1996.  Where leprosy was successfully controlled.

 This Pakistani Messiah left this world on 10 August 2017

 Awards:

 1- 1969: Order of Merit (Germany)

 2- 1969: Sitara i Quaid i Azam

 3- In recognition of her service to the country, she was awarded Pakistani citizenship in 1988

 4- Hilal-i-Pakistan

 5- Ramon Magsaysay Award - 2002

 6- Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam (Aug.14th 2010)