Ruth Pfau

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Ruth Pfau is a German Pakistani who devoted her life for the leprosy patients in Pakistan.

Ruth Pfau was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929. They were five sisters and one brother. When Russians came there she escaped to Western Germany along with her family and chose medicine as her future career. She was not satisfied with her life. She wanted to do soemthing with her life. She joined a religious group and flew to Pakistan in 1962. She came to Karachi and visited a leprosy colony of Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre. Here she decided that the care of patient is her life.

She went to the far off areas of Pakistan where there was no medical facility for leprosy patients. She collected donations and made hospitals in Rawalpindi and Karachi.

Ruth Pfau is recognised in Pakistan and abroad as a distinguished human being and has been awarded many prizes and medals.


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