The word epilepsy is commonly known as “ Meergi” in local languages and as well as in urdu. The brain is complex machine consists of millions of nerve cells, or neurones, and their supporting structure. Each neurone maintains itself in an electrically charged state. It receives electrical signals from other neurones, and passes them on to others. What actually happens is that a tiny quantity of a special neurotransmitter substance is released from the terminals of one neurone. This chemical excites an electrical response in the nuerone next in the chain, and so the signal moves onward.
All the functions of the brain, including feeling, seeing, thinking and moving muscles depend on electrical signals being passed from one neurone to the next, the message being modified as required. The normal brain is constantly generating electrical rhythms in an orderly way.
In epilepsy this order is disrupted by some neurone discharging signals inappropriately. There may be a kind of brief electrical “storm” arising from nuerones that are inherently unstable because of a genetic defect (as in the various types of inherited epilepsy), or from neurones made unstable by metabolic abnormalities such as low blood glucose, or alcohol. Alternatively, the abnormal discharge may come from a localised area of the brain (this is the situation in patients with epilepsy caused by head injury, or brain tumour).
Varieties of Epilepsy
There are several forms of epilepsy. Most people will have seen someone suffer a major epileptic seizure, suddenly losing consciousness, jerking the arms and legs, etc. But there are other types of epilepsy – for example, one common form of epilepsy in children merely consists of staring blankly and losing contact with the surroundings for a few seconds. Which is called absence epilepsy and this type of spells may be child experienced 10 times a day, parents, school teachers are the most important members to identify it. Such type of children mostly poor school performers with weak memory issues.
Epilepsy & our society
Lack of education and poor health structure we make epilepsy one of the complex diseases, although its complex but its treatable, there are different kind of medications and therapies but it’s very important for epileptic patient to consult with some professional practitioner.
How to react if someone has seizure
During seizures mostly patients has random body movements.
Try to keep patient safe from injuries like sharp objects from surrounding.
Loos the body cloths.
Do not put any sharp object to the mouth of patient.
Just push him to lateral (side) position.
Do not put any medication or water in the mouth of patient during seizures.
Usually patients are responding around 3 to 5 minutes but if patient did not respond and he has next attack of seizure so rush him to the nearest hospital or emergency centers.
Sometime after seizures patient experienced of vomiting, loose of stool or urine.
Unfortunately some people are still belief to treat epilepsy “ murgee” as traditional way “ Taveez, dam dua”.
Please if your some dear one has epilepsy must consult with professional practitioner.

Rehmat Karim
Neurophysiologist American center for Psychitry & Neurology
Abu Dhabi UAE
r_karimhunzai@hotmail.com

Kids are innocent they don’t know about this mysterious world. They live for them selves. Always try to walk behind Mummy. Its natural phenomena that kids always sit, share there feeling, show there emotions, and give mischievous demands to there mothers. As she takes care of them before there birth. She understands there needs before they tell her.

No doubt Mother is precious gift of Almighty Allah. She knows how to deal with kids, how to share joy , and how to stop them from bad things. Teach them about religion, culture, social values etc.

Kids always try to imitate there elders whether they are good or bad. They don’t know about good or bad as kids are like mud. It depends on parents that how to mould them.

“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be”.
David Bly

Guys Stay Blessed .

Music can help you relax after you have come home from work after a long hard day, listening to music while cooking gives that relaxation touch to your mind and body. Cooking and music provide that stress release system, which you consumed in your mind and body by working long hours. So whether it is to release physical stress or mental stress music can help.

Even some doctors are advising some of their patients to listen to music to release stress.

Hope this article has provided you with the information on how music can help you reduce your stress.

The study conducted by the University of Sydney in Australia found that 6 to 7-year-olds who spent the most time in front of the TV had narrower arteries in the back of their eyes, which increases their chances of developing heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes when they are older.

Dr. Bamini Gopinath, the study’s lead author, said: “Parents need to get their children up and moving and off the couch.”

The first-of-its-kind study involved 1,500 children in 34 primary schools in Sydney.

On average, children spent almost two hours a day in front of a TV or computer screen and just 36 minutes in organized physical activity.

But those with the highest level of activity – more than an hour or so – had significantly wider retinal arteries than those who spent less than 30 minutes.

The damage appears to be caused by a combination of concentrating for too long on the screen and not getting enough exercise.

“This suggests unhealthy lifestyle factors may influence microcirculation early in life and increase the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure later in life,” Gopinath added.

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This is one of those subjective things that everyone believes in…but the problem is that everyone assumes that it is something that everyone experiences in the same way…everyone generalizes happiness…people just want to be “HAPPY”…but most of the time, they dont know what they are looking for…and most of the time they want something just because someone else has it and they seem “happy”…so we automatically assume that that thing would make us happy too…what we fail to consider is that everyone is not as HAPPY as they might seem to be….everyone has problems to deal with and just because they seem happy does not mean that they are actually satisfied with their lives….and the reason for that is that happiness is overrated by everyone…everyone paints a picture with endless diversity of colors…but no one realizes that picture is not easy to paint and that life is not easy….it might seem easy for some people, but as a matter of fact, it is a test….it is a test of integrity, faith, strength….

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Why is it that we Gilgit Baltistanies don’t take any notice whatsoever about a certain thing or event unless it concerns us? People are killed in our Gilgit city nearly everyday, but does it make any difference to us?

We read newspapers, watch TV channels everyday, that open fire continues in Gilgit which killed and injured a certain number of people. For us, these people are just numbers, Gilgities, Shias, Sunies or Ismailies. The people who get killed everyday are someone’s son, daughter, brother, sister, father, mother. Be honest, when was the last time you said a dua for those victims? Now I am not saying I’m perfect, sometimes I don’t take notice either.

The question I ask is that why don’t we take notice? Why have we become so self centered that it makes no difference to us if thirty people died in Gilgit, eighteen in Chilass, fifteen in Ghizer, eight in Sakardu or ten in Hunza. We just carry on with our lives as normal as if nothing happened.

So, today I ask all of you, or whoever reads this that why is it that we as Gilgit Baltistanies, as a nation, as a country (Pakistani or any name you chose) never show unity? We always find ways to separate ourselves in one way or another, starting from religion, then go to districts level, going onto the language we speak.

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Pakistan is a home to some of the most beautiful and scenic places on earth but unfortunately, our tourism industry is breathing its last. In a report presented at the World Economic Forum, Pakistan was ranked 113 in tourism out of the 133 countries. Needless to say, its the hub of mountaineering, the Karakorum range has some of the highest peaks of the world here such as the mighty K-2 (second highest peak after Everest), the Himalaya range also has its highest peak here commonly known as the Nanga Parbat (9th highest peak in the world), its famous as the killer mountain due to its extremely difficult tracks – even more difficult than Everest and K-2 and the third famous range is the Hindu Kush with its highest peak Trichmir – are all located in Pakistan . It has its fair share of the famous ‘SILK ROAD’, the legendary Karakorum Highway, valleys full of cherry blossoms, beautiful weather, distinct seasons and of course, its ‘very hospitable people’.

The Mobile Number Portability system was implemented in Pakistan in March 2007 and this was a first MNP execution in South Asia.

The MNP system provides an excellent opportunity to the cellular subscriber to change Network without changing the MSISDN(Mobile Number),and thus allows flexibility with respect to tariff plans,SMS Packages & other services.

PTA has been mandated to promote and protect the interests of users of telecom services in Pakistan, by proving them viable alternatives to the users and to “promote a wide range of high quality, efficient, cost effective and competitive telecommunication services throughout Pakistan; and promote rapid modernization of telecommunication services and systems”.

When the Government of Pakistan realized that subscribers were averse to switching networks since they could not retain their numbers, in order to boost competitiveness and establish market conditions, the MNP regime was established under the watchful eye of PTA.

Pakistan MNP Database Ltd. is responsible for MNP implementation in accordance with Mobile Number Portability Regulations 2005, and it was formed in October 2005 and all six cellular operators in Pakistan are members of the company.

With the bulk of the customers on GSM (as per current PTA data, the number of subscribers have increased to 100 million plus), MNP has just focused on mobile service operators.

Given the fact that at least for fixed line numbers, customer have no options other than PTCL and for wireless local loop operators, the bulk of the customers are again on PTCL, with a total subscriber base of approximately 2.76 million subscribers, as per figures provided by PTA, it seems unlikely that MNP for WLL will catch the attention for PTA anytime soon.

Same is the case with SCO (Special communication Organization),operating in Gil-Baltistan and Kashmir, that no one can port SCO/wll and SCOM number to and from any other network in the country.

on talking possibilities of taking WLL/LL operators onboard, it said there no such thing in their to-do-list for now. However, one can expect these WLL/LL operators to offer MNP as well, maybe in distant future.

Another factor which will also weigh-in, is the fact that any MNP solution will not be cheap and all relevant stakeholders will need to be convinced that it is cost effective, and that at the end of the day, will actually bring benefit to the customers and that the customers will port WLL numbers.

Whether the concerned stakeholders i.e. the regulator & the companies can be convinced to take this next logical step is another question altogether albeit a number of SCO/WLL & SCOM subscribers are probably waiting in GilGit-Baltistan & Kashmir to avail this facility.

(Thanks to the courtesy of Pro-Pakistani)

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From : Karachi

Occupation : Software Engineer

It has nearly been one year since my father passed away in the emergency room of a local hospital.

He was a heart patient but he managed his health well. The night before his demise, he restless and complained of a slight pain in his chest. He felt better in the morning, but by the afternoon his condition had deteriorated. My sisters rushed him to a well known hospital in Defence Phase I, Karachi which boasts its expertise in health care, the nearest hospital at the time.

When I reached the hospital’s emergency room. There were no nurses or doctors around. There was one person wearing a tie and starched shirt strolling around, who looked like an HR manager of a multinational. Upon inquiry, he said that a doctor was on his way. My father was given an oxygen mask to ease his breathing. The hospital staff prescribed medicine which my sister rushed to get from the hospital’s pharmacy.

Meanwhile, the hospital monitor said my father’s oxygen saturation was gradually improving but he kept saying that he was unable to breathe.

As we stood around his bed, attending to him in the “emergency” room he insisted that his condition was worse than it was at home. We tried to comfort him by helping him sit up, then lie down again but his restlessness increased with the passage of time.

The well-dressed man (I still don’t know his designation) assured us that a specialist was on duty and was on his way. But we never got to see that doctor. The mystery man started inquiring about my father’s medical history. We had already handed him the file of his medical records that we had brought, and since this person was not a doctor, it was evident that he could not understand the file. Any sane medical professional in the emergency section of a hospital would have taken ECGs and performed relevant tests to evaluate a heart patient’s condition.

We could see that the medicine in the nebuliser had finished, and pointed it out to the people on duty. But it seemed that a patient lying in the emergency ward was of no importance, and his pain was no big deal. Before our eyes the oxygen saturation dropped drastically. We shouted and yelled out to the staff who realised what was happening.

We suddenly saw our father collapse.

Now, there was an increase in the staff’s activity. They rushed him to the ICU, only to inform us after a while that he had expired due to a cardiac arrest. In the short span of under 30 minutes, our father passed away and we could do nothing to save him.

But the fact is that I had felt my father’s cold hands when he was being rushed to the ICU. It was then that I realised there was no pulse and no sign of life in his eyes, and I had surrendered. I knew the staff were all lying. I was numb. I accepted this as Allah’s will. What else could I have done?

The episode still haunts me.

One question keeps bothering me: is there anything that I could have done?

Leaving my father at the mercy of the inefficient, unprofessional emergency staffers of a big, well-constructed hospital was the biggest mistake of my life. It makes me wonder if there is any organisation of qualified medical experts who regulate the functioning of hospitals. Is there anything such as a license?

I had been reluctant about sharing this tragic experience, because of the devastation I felt and because I thought it would amount to nothing.

But then I felt that I must.

I have written a letter to the hospital management but have received no response. In any case, nothing can undo our loss.

It is unfortunate that people suffer daily at the hands of mismanagement. Can we do anything about it? Probably not, I am afraid I am as helpless as I was when we arrived at the hospital.

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Bullet proof vehicles have to be purchased for the CM and Governor Gilgit-Baltistan and if approved, it would cost 150 Million Rupees. I cannot understand the misery of why the government and the politicians always place their security on priority basis rather facilitating the people already deprived of even the basic amenities of life. The poor is dying of hunger and they are busy planning their personal security with the blood of people. If their security is so much important then why they are not arranging it by their own expenses? As they can manage it. Why they consider them self the most important to ones among all?Why they are taking the sectarian turmoil as deadly for them self only rather the victim is always the poor one who leaves his home early in the morning in search of his food?

For God sake Mr.Chief Minister & Mr.Governor nobody is going to hit you. Can you please refuse the bullet proof’s and order to spent these 150Million to setup a Professional institute i-e an Engineering, Medical or a Law college so that the youth can equip themselves with the modern and most demanded education which is inevitable in bringing up the status of this region equal to that of the modern world. And if yes, then I am sure that God will be protecting you from any attack of you fear. The whole region will then pray for your protection. They will volunteer them self to body guard you. This is all about “to do the needful in the time”
We must be aware of the fact that the only key to overthrow the threats of terror is by facilitating and promoting Education. The government is responsible to ensure the security of each and every person of its state. Purchasing only two bullet proof vehicles is not the solution to the problem.

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