By A.M. Aarif Jokatte for TwoCircles.net,
Jeddah: Ansar Ahmed (35), from Uttar Pradesh, is recovering after successful operation in Jeddah National Hospital. Native of Azamgarh in U.P., Ansar was found in the Baithul Hujjaj, Kandara in a paralyzed condition with immobility of his limbs after the spinal column was affected. His condition is satisfactory now and recovering in the Intensive Care Unit following the successful surgery conducted by the well known neurosurgeon Dr. Salih Bakkeeny, hospital authorities said.
Volunteers of India Fraternity Forum brought him to the Jeddah National Hospital as they found him in debilitated condition in Baithul Hujjaj. Hospital authorities communicated to the Forum that the surgery will cost SR.40,000 and SR.20,000 has to be paid immediately as the situation was very critical. The Forum offered the guarantee for the initial payment of SR.20,000 and the Consulate of India gave assurances towards the balance amount which made the urgent surgery immediately possible. Welfare Consul Mr. Vijayan has rendered full support and co-operation of the Indian Consulate for the treatment of Ansar.
[Photo by Jeddah National Hospital]
Tremendous support given by Forum volunteers to Ansar was indeed a blessing to him, who was unable to make the basic movements like taking his food or even to go toilet. Besides, the overstaying Keralites under the Sharafiya bridge also supported the Ansar and the Forum.
Ansar was working as herdsman with his sponsor Mohammed Sabah in Hawiya, Taif since Janaury 2008. Following his sponsor’s advice to seek employment elsewhere, Ansar came to Jeddah in search of job as he found that the job with his sponsor was not suitable and satisfactory to him and had to win his daily bread by selling bottled water at the traffic signals, in Jeddah.
Both mother and father of Ansar are dead long ago and the only elder brother had died in Riyadh, while looking for employment there in the city, after arriving from Taif. Hailing from a very poor labour family, Ansar has a younger brother and wife Satharunnisa and a two year old child, to support.