10 years back I last saw this little, cute girl playing with younger kids in my colony. But recently my mom has called up on my cell to inform that this young girl who had recently joined engineering(B.E.) is suffering from some fatal disease. She is just little above half my age and has lots of life to see ahead. But now she is on a hospital bed fighting for life without knowing how fatal her disease is.I am sure that their parents alone cannot afford the treament and in case they do try (ofcourse they are trying) to get the amount, it will take ages to clear the debt. Why am I speaking so much about a life and then about money ?
Its an irony of life ,the girl or her parents have not done anything wrong but are forced to be in a situation waiting for some donors to save her life. They know that she can survive if she undergoes bone marrow transplantation but they cannot afford the cost . As I was searching for charity organisations and trusts for fund raising I came across these pathetic news items:
- Mukesh Ambani donated 5 crores for Tirupati temple in feb 2010.
- A karnataka minister has donated 45 crores worth ornaments to Tirupati devasthanam.
- In 2007 a devotee donated 1.5 crore worth gold items for the same temple.
- In 2006 Amitabh Bachan has offered gifts worth 8 crore for the same temple.
- Annual earnings of this temple is almost 2000 crore rupees.
Where is our society heading? Rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer. The Poor have no money to eat or get treatments for their medical ailments and do physical hard work to get some food for their family . The Rich on the other hand do physical work at gyms to digest their over-eaten food and donate their surplus money to temples . If there was (is) God, wont he be happy or impressed with his devotees helping the needy rather than spending it lavishly on temples and statues.
Medical backdrop:
Bone marrow is a flexible tissue found in the hollow interiors of bones , which produces new blood cells .There are two types of bone marrow: red marrow (consisting mainly of hematopoietic tissue) and yellow marrow (consisting mainly of fat cells). Red blood cells, platelets and most white blood cells arise in red marrow. Both types of bone marrow contain numerous blood vessels and capillaries. Blood cells come from special cells in the bone marrow, called stem cells. In aplastic anaemia blood production by stem cells fails resulting in a lack of red cells (oxygen carrying), white cells (keep body immune to infections) and platelets (which are needed to prevent bleeding and bruising). Imagine a person with lesser blood cells??? Aplastic anaemia is not a form of cancer. There is a lack of cells within the blood and the bone marrow shows replacement of normal blood forming cells with fat cells.
How Can I or anyone help
I have managed to contact relatives of the patient and got some details(reference docs shown below) so that anyone interested could donate directly to the hospital , mentioning patient's name and hospital no. Please drop a comment here if anyone is aware of any Charity or trusts funding such cases or if you have donated to the hospital using the details given below.
Patient Name: T.Naga Sowjanya
Hospital No in cmc hopital: 619264C
