SHAZIA’s life has been a journey of struggle and hardship. As a young child growing up in an impoverished family in Nawabshah, she lost her three sisters to an unidentified disease. Shortly after, her grief-stricken father also passed away. In 2002, at the age of 24, while studying as a second-year student, Shazia came to Karachi to attend a family wedding. There, she suffered a severe fit and was admitted to a nearby hospital where she was diagnosed with renal failure. Shazia’s past medical history showed that she had previously been treated for fever in a hospital in Nawabshah, where she was prescribed the wrong medication. Soon after, however, everything changed for the better when Shazia began receiving treatment at The Kidney Centre.