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MEDEEHA APPEAL – Launched October 2011, still on-going
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Imagine a child living his/her normal daily life happily one moment, only to have tragedy strike the next changing their life forever!
Madeeha was born in Middlesbrough in 1989 and at the age of 4 months moved to Pakistan with her mother. When she was 8 her dress caught fire from a burning candle and she sustained 70% burns to her body from her neck down. Her eyesight was also badly affected. This accident almost killed her.
For four months she was unable to eat orally and had to be fed intravenously and underwent deeply distressing treatment to her body. Her parents could not afford the treatment she needed so her grandparents in the UK paid for an Army Hospital to treat her. Later they paid for a hospital in Lahore to attempt to correct her vision problems but the consultant said it could not be done. Madeeha still has nightmares about these unfortunate events even today.
At the age of 16 she returned to Middlesbrough to live