Ayesha Naeem, Pakistan
Reflecting back on my childhood i cannot ever skip the smudge of grief that descended upon my family when my mother's cousin, young and full of life, lost her life to a stroke due to sudden rise in blood pressure. She was happily married and mother of a toddler. Her husband was about to return from abroad and had bought for her the gold bangles she had asked for. One day while doing her daily chores, the fatefully fatal chain of events set into motion and the silent killer took her life while her toddler kept screaming for his mother at the top of his lungs which eventually led to the neighbors finding her body in a pool of blood. As a child I couldn't get over the dread that the little boy would have to face, growing up without a mother. A husband coming back only to bury his wife and probably his heart too. Fear took over me when my mother recently started having headaches because of hypertension. Hypertension is so common yet hard to be diagnosed at an early stage and still, be cured. I wish for the advances in technology and science should be directed most towards the health and care of patients because what is more important than human life and experiences.