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What happens when a deaf patient walks into a hospital in Pakistan?
Imagine walking into a government hospital with a fever, chest pain, or a child who won’t stop crying, and having no way to tell the doctor what is wrong. There is no interpreter. The staff don’t sign. You write on a scrap of paper if you can, you point, and you hope. Then you leave with a prescription you may not fully understand, for a diagnosis nobody properly explained. For many deaf and hard-of-hearing Pakistanis, this isn’t hypothetical. It is an ordinary visit to the doctor. I’ve spent the last few years working with the Sir Syed Deaf Association (SDA). But the moment that stayed with m...
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