Salman Mehmood of ApniISP.com fame passed away today. Salman was suffering from Thalassemia Major. He was a brave young man, who made a good use of his short life. He had the will, the courage and talent to inspire others. I believe he knew he had a short time here, so made most out it.
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Salman Mehmood worked for a US based company called Directors Advantage during night hours. He was very popular among Pakistani bloggers, prayers for Salman can be found on most updated Pakistani blogs here and here. Reading those blogs you can judge his popularity among bloggers and Pakistani website owners. He was a good PHP programmers. Salman founded an organization for awareness and eradication of Thalassemia called Fight Against Thalassemia Foundation (FAiTh).
He appeared on ATV Kaun Hoga Naujawanon Ka Wazeer-e-Azam, and gave a motivating speech for awareness of thalassemia and proposed that a bill should be passed in National Assembly to eradicate thalassemia from Pakistan.
Here is the translation of his speech on ATV.
“I want to tell you about the disease I have since childhood called Thalassemia Major, in this disease the patient needs blood transfusion every month, additionally to take extra iron out of his body patient also has to take iron chelation injections for as much as eight hours per day. It’s a very painful disease, and I want to eradicate this disease from Pakistan. Every year 6000 kids are born with thalassemia in Pakistan. I want to make sure that no other kid or family has to suffer what me and my family OR thousands of thalassemics like me had to suffer. There is a very simple solution to this, countries like Cyprus, Iran have enforce prevention laws for these diseases by requiring related medical tests before Marriage. We can have that kind of law passed here too, and it’s under discussion in parliament as well. So I want that this bill to be passed and Pre-marital tests to become required.”
May Allah bless him and may he rest in peace. Ameen.
