A dying woman in Rawalpindi saved three people’s lives by donating her vital organs, liver, and kidneys.
Rifat Zartaj wrote a will before her death about donating her vital organs. Her liver was transplanted into patient Omar Khayyam at the PKLI. Her kidneys were transplanted into 28-year-old Ahsan Jameel and 50-year-old Major Rukhsana.
Is the Rs.5, 000 note being discontinued?
Caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar has once again clarified that the government has no plans to take the Rs5,000 note out of circulation. Speaking in an interview on Saturday night, the finance minister said that the remedies to Pakistan’s economic problems lay in making reforms that would encourage investment. “Demonetisation is no solution,” Akhtar flatly told the interview. She added that the Rs5,000 note had been introduced during her term as governor of the State Bank of Pakistan at the request of the government at the time and she still considered it to be a good step. Akhtar said that the
Zartaj’s brother Dr. Fahad Abbas said, “Rifat Zartaj had made a will to donate her organs in 2012.” Her daughter Dr. Noor Al Huda said that doctors at the Safari Hospital fulfilled her mother’s wish.
Doctor’s said the patients who had the liver and kidney transplants were recovering.
