Dr. Ruth Pfau: Remembering on her 5th death anniversary
In a tribute to late German-born Dr. Ruth Pfau on the fifth anniversary of her death, Pakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif stressed that role models like her strengthen faith in humanity.
In the early hours of the morning on 10 August 2017, Dr. Ruth Pfau passed away at the Aga Khan University Hospital, around 4:00 a.m. Dr Ruth admitted to the hospital on 4 August for respiratory problems and put on a ventilator on 6 August. Nevertheless, the doctors decided to take her off the ventilator since she had asked them to do so.
In addition to kidney and heart disease, Dr. Ruth had been undergoing treatment for several years.
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