Ali Khan – A Harbringer of change

Ali Khan, a businessman by profession, has taken up a mantle. A mantle rather

uncommon for a young man who has everything he needs, including a rich

background and unlimited opportunities for a person with deep pockets.. he has

found peace in helping people. Not poor people or lower members of the status

quo… but everyone who is capable of existing.

Ali Khan runs an Organization that operates entirely out of the money him and his

business network are willing to generate, with the sole objective of treating and

vaccinating and screening everybody he can get his hands on, against Hepatitis C.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported this week that the

hepatitis C virus (HCV) now kills more people annually than HIV, the virus that

causes AIDS. Most of the deaths occur in middle-aged adults — 3% of baby

boomers are infected — and about half of people infected don’t know they have

the virus.

Like HIV, HCV is spread through contact with contaminated blood and less

commonly through sex. Hepatitis C is now the leading cause of liver transplant, but

newly approved drugs can cure the disease before it gets that far — current clinical

trials also suggest improvements in treatment are on the horizon — if people are

screened and treated in time. Since hepatitis C typically doesn’t cause symptoms

until serious damage has been done, early screening is crucial.

This is the mission that Ali, a native of KPK, Pakistan has sworn to accomplish.

His initiative does not come from a sad story or death of a loved one… but from a

realization that the world is a sad place without the effort of the privileged, to make

it a better place.

His projects so far have spanned the provinces of the north as well as most of

unoccupied and remote Kashmir, with a new launch for Punjab, the beginning of

which is imminent.

Ali believes “I am not a messiah or even a ‘good person’ per say… I have no

intention of saving people so that I may be respected or found worthy. I believe I

am doing my duty. Something my father taught me to be, a man of my word. I

promised myself that I would do something that would make my family proud….

This may not be my destiny till the end, but a good deed is a wildfire, it gives

others reason to burn in the good light and possibly even learn the courage to come

out unscathed”. With a lot of heartfelt respect and hopes for his long life and

continued capability to do what his promise to himself demands, we wish him

good luck and the very best of wishes. There may be no rest for the wicked, but

there is certainly a world of peace for the noble.

Faizan Ahmed

EMBA 5

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