Subha-e-Nao provides kidney education with quality recreation

Jumbo Editorial Team

That’s the beauty of the whole thing. The serious issues pertaining to the ailment of kidney were unfolded to the audience in such a manner which kept them glued to their seats without realizing that they were being actually taught a few lessons.

That’s what the dramas are meant to do. That’s how the theatre is considered such an effective medium in the society.

In 90 minutes, Subha-e-Nao passed on invaluable medical information to the audience in a nice way with emotion, humour and style.

There were elements of humanity, patriotism, family affections and love which were depicted through the various scenes.

Subha-e-Nao was produced to raise awareness in public about the kidney diseases and transplant issues. The drama, written by H Iqbal, was endorsed by the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation. It was directed by Adam Rathors of Adams Theatre. It was staged at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, with the collaboration of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), on April 1.  

The cast was a mixture of famous TV artists like Saleem Afridi, Rauf Alam, Shahida Murtaza and Asghar Mandviwala and the lot of talented newcomers included Dur-e-Shahwar, Zarish, Zaib, Imran Hussain, Kashif Khan and Hussain Sachwani.

The story revolved around a dashing young athlete who was laid low by kidney problems. His entire family shared his pains as they had to endure traumatic moments.

They battled it out and never lost hope. The never-say-die approach brought about the rewards in the end after the early despair.

In fact it’s a real story of a Pakistani youngster, Saleem, who had his first kidney failure in childhood. He went for dialysis but later on he had kidney transplant. Luckily his brother’s kidney gets matched and he had a successful kidney transplant at SIUT.  

After transplant he led a successful life. He participated in various Olympics  for Transplanted People and won gold medals for Pakistan. 

He also got married and was blessed with two kids. He did not consider his blood pressure disease very serious and after four years his transplanted kidney failed.

Once again he went on dialysis but this time he had no donor from his family due to tissue matching. He waited for a quite long time for an outsider, other than family, to donate kidney to him.

He had another successful transplant and resumed leading a normal and happy life. He returned to the profession of sales and has continued performing well.