KARACHI – Renowned leprosy fighter Dr Ruth Pfau, who passed away on August 10 and is being accorded state funeral, made three final wishes before leaving the world.
Pfau, who was rightly credited for eradicating leprosy from Pakistan, wished that she should not be put on a ventilator, probably for living a natural life, how long it was.
Her second wish reflected her rampant love for humanity and the patients he treated as she asked that her dead body should be brought to Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre, the hospital of which she was in charge.
The final wish relates to the aesthetic sense of the humanitarian as Dr Pfau wanted to be buried in a red dress.
The social worker who left Germany to treat patients in Pakistan breathed her last, last week at the age of 87, but she was fortunate enough that her wishes were respected.
The dead body of Pfau was shifted to MALC from Holy Family Hospital earlier today where the patients caught a glimpse of her.
