May Allah bless her soul. In this media generated hysteria we as a nation forgot to analyse what went wrong in the first place with that girl.
To begin with she was under treatment of one of my senior colleagues at CMH Lahore ( A very fine human being and one of the best Neurophysicians of Pakistan Army).
She was a diagnosed case of epilepsy ( Mirgi), which is quite common and is NOT life threatening if one gets the medical treatment in time. In Arfa's case she had a prolonged seizure episode ( Status epilepticus) and her evacuation to the hospital was delayed ( for reasons unknown to me).
By the time she was put on ventilator her brain was already damaged beyond recovery. All this media hype with Bill Gates ""Special Interest" and plans to fly her to Dubai were nothing but a "Nauseating" attempt by our pathetic media to give a totally wrong picture of a talented girl who was on ventilator.
I am sure there are many other Nameless girls like Arfa who have died in the last many years but didn't get the attention she got. Blaming the government and others won't bring her back or prevent further preventable deaths of talented youth. It's time that we wake up and set our priorities.
A nation which spends less than 5 % of its total budget on health and education is destined to face such tragedies and loose talent like Arifa.