“From Patient to Partner: 20-year journey comes full circle for doctor and former patient”

In a remarkable full-circle moment, a young man from Ghulamullah, Pakistan astonishingly joined the same doctor’s practice as an intern, two decades after the doctor had treated his multiple heart-related complications. Kamran Karwani, a 23-year-old young doctor, joined Dr. Saulat Fatmi at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi, after 20 years of his own treatment at the same hospital by the same doctor. Dr Fatmi took to the official Facebook page of AKUH to share this astonishing coincidence of his career spanning over two decades. Dr Fatmi revealed that a 3-year-old child, Kamran, was brought to him for treatment from Ghulamullah town, Thatta district, in a serious condition and was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening heart complication occurring among newborns. “I used all my expertise to perform surgery on that child, and by the grace of God Almighty, the surgery was successful, and the child recovered safely and soundly,” said Dr. Fatmi. He further added that it was utterly surprising for him to see the same child, now grown up, joining him as an intern in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at AKUH.