Terminally ill Emirati patient gets her wish fulfilled and visits Dubai beach on a stretcher

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00:0072-year-old Emirati Fatima Zalzal bin Khamis is terminally ill from cervical cancer.

00:11She underwent major surgeries and has been under palliative care at a hospital for the

00:16last two months.

00:19Ms. Fatima is our patient since a few years and she underwent so many surgeries, she has

00:24so many diseases and advanced terminal diseases as well, which we discovered recently, unfortunately,

00:30which is not prone to any management.

00:33Main treatment for her actually is a palliative care, including feeding, painkillers, antibiotics

00:38for her infections.

00:39As she battles the disease, it has been one of Fatima's last wishes to visit the beach.

00:46Since a few weeks, she's asking us to see the sea, because since a long time she did

00:51not see the sea, five years.

00:54She told me five years she didn't see the sea, and they rarely sees the sun as well.

00:58Prime Hospital, where she's been admitted, arranged a special team of doctors, nurses

01:03and caregivers to make this possible.

01:07So on a fine Wednesday morning, the team brought Fatima to Jumeirah, finally fulfilling her

01:12wish of seeing the beach once again after five years.

01:16We took the permission from family who welcomed the idea of taking her to the sea.

01:20We did it today with the support of our management, who is present with us actually today, also

01:25the nursing director.

01:26We could make her dream come true, alhamdulillah, by bringing her to Dubai Sea.

01:30She's very happy, actually.

01:31She told me, jazakallah khair in Arabic, which means thank you very much, may Allah grant

01:36you a great thanks for taking this step for me.

01:39Since five years I didn't see the sea, so she is very happy, alhamdulillah.

01:43And we feel from inside very happy because we could achieve and fulfill this wish for

01:49the patient, which could be the last wish, we don't know, but God knows.

01:54It's our job to make her comfortable as much as possible, happy as much as possible.