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Byline: MOHAMMAD AKBAR - Jampur

Herding sheep and growing date palms was the simple life I was living six months back in Saudi Arabia, 'when a day I started feeling pricking pain in my left kidney'. This pain hindered my physical movement hence I had to leave my job and return to my home in a village of Jampur, a Tehsil of Rajanpur in Southern Punjab, Pakistan. My first Ultrasound showed a possible tumor growth in my left kidney hence we went to Nishtar Hospital Multan, where Prof Rafiq Anjum confirmed malignant nature of my tumor (Renal Carcinoma) and advised me to go to Lahore and visit Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH and RC) as being the only Hospital providing complete free treatment to more than 75% of its poor cancer patients.

In Lahore, my case was taken up by Shaukat Khanum Hospital without any delay. They told me of treating my cancer by surgically removing the cancerous area...