She was a chubby and cheerful toddler till she suddenly contracted a fever when she was three years old. She was taken to a doctor, who gave her an injection to bring down the fever. But the high dosage turned out to be the kiss of immobility and she ended up being an addition to the polio stats of the state.

Her world had been turned upside down but her growing-up years were unclouded by feelings of revulsion for doctors; instead, she was determined to become one herself to prevent other children from becoming victims of medical negligence.

Twenty-six-year-old Mahajabeen Madarkar’s story is the stuff dreams are made of. And one that came true while confined to a wheelchair.

Mahajabeen, who passed her MBBS course in the first division, was the cynosure of all eyes on Monday at the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) when counselling for post-graduation seats commenced. She got a seat in dermatology at Fr Muller Medical College in Mangalore.

“I lost my legs because of the negligence of a doctor. I have suffered enough. In today’s world of increased commercialisation, I do not want kids to become victims of callousness. I took up medicine to become a good doctor and serve the poor,” Mahajabeen told Bangalore Mirror. What makes Mahajabeen different from other disabled youngsters is that she has scaled this particulqar peak despite having studied in the Kannada medium.

Hailing from a middle-class Muslim family in Almatti of Bijapur district, Mahajabeen is the sixth child of retired accountant Saheb Patel B Madarkar and homemaker Shahpuri Begum. Her father said, “We were shocked when we got to know that she would be disabled for life, but had to accept the reality. We put her in school as she wanted to study. But the initial years were very difficult as we were torn between reality and her aspirations.”

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Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, 52, who is serving a life sentence for his role in anti-government protests last year, has been denied visits by his family and lawyer in the past four days. He has been on hunger strike for 62 days in protest at his unfair imprisonment.

Amnesty International considers Al-Khawaja and 13 other prominent opposition activists held with him to be prisoners of conscience, held solely for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and who have not advocated violence.

Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja’s wife told Amnesty International that he had been barred from receiving visits for the past four days.

They had last spoken on Friday evening, when he phoned her from the Bahrain Defence Force Hospital, saying he had asked to be transferred back to Jaw Prison after having difficulty breathing. He claimed that the nurses and guards at the hospital were not treating him well.