{"id":2910,"date":"2019-09-09T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umang.pk\/2019\/09\/google-remembers-dr-ruth-pfau-with-doodle-on-her-90th-birth-anniversary-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:04:30","slug":"google-remembers-dr-ruth-pfau-with-doodle-on-her-90th-birth-anniversary-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/2019\/09\/09\/google-remembers-dr-ruth-pfau-with-doodle-on-her-90th-birth-anniversary-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Google remembers Dr Ruth Pfau with doodle on her 90th birth anniversary – Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google paid tribute to Dr. Ruth Pfau, the late doctor and nun who dedicated her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan, with a scribble on her 90th birthday on Monday. <\/p>\n

The drawing represents the German-Pakistani doctor, who died at the age of 87 in Karachi in August 2017, attending to a patient. <\/p>\n

In describing the scribble, Google said it was being honored because "it was dedicated to eradicating the leprosy of Pakistan, saving countless lives."<\/p>\n

Read: My first encounter with Dr. Ruth Pfau, the angel of Manghopir<\/em><\/p>\n

"Also known as Hansen's disease, leprosy is caused by a bacterial infection that can now be prevented and cured, but the disease has historically caused patients to be excluded and stigmatized by disfigurement," he said. <\/p>\n

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The tech giant said that due to Pfau's persistent and disinterested efforts, the World Health Organization declared leprosy under control in Pakistan in 1996, before most other Asian countries. <\/p>\n

Google, based in Mountain View, California, frequently changes the colorful logo on its famous Spartan homepage to celebrate anniversaries or important events or pay tribute to artists, scientists, statesmen and others.<\/p>\n

A remarkable legacy<\/h2>\n

Dr. Pfau, who was a German by birth, had been sent to Pakistan in 1960 by the Daughters of the Heart of Mary, a congregation of nuns of which she was a member, for a medical service for students.<\/p>\n

After witnessing the difficult situation of leprosy patients, he decided to settle here. He was granted Pakistani citizenship in 1988.<\/p>\n

One of the founders of the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center (MALC) in Karachi, Pfau managed to establish a network of 157 medical centers that served thousands of people.<\/p>\n

In 1979, he received the Hilal-i-Imtiaz prize, the second most important civil award in the country. In 1989, Dr. Pfau was introduced to Hilal-i-Pakistan for her services.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1504392\/google-remembers-dr-ruth-pfau-with-doodle-on-her-90th-birth-anniversary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google paid tribute to Dr. Ruth Pfau, the late doctor and nun who dedicated her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan, with a scribble on her 90th birthday on Monday. The drawing represents the German-Pakistani doctor, who died at the age of 87 in Karachi in August 2017, attending to a patient. In describing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11828],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}