‘Amma, appa, no! Please don't take me to the hospital! Please...’ 

 

A little under two months ago, one evening, Fathima started vomiting. Her parents took her to their local doctor, who gave her an injection, prescribed some medicines, and called it a day. While the vomiting did go down for a day, it came back again, much more severely this time. This went on for a week, Fathima vomiting, being taken to the hospital, and being given some medicines. And then Mujeeb, her father, noticed that her eyes were starting to cross. At their local doctor’s recommendation, they went to a big hospital, where they ran a variety of tests.
 

'Our daughter had a brain tumour, and needed urgent surgery'

“Never in a million years would we have guessed that our sweet little girl would have to go through something like this. It had started as just vomiting! From there to being diagnosed with a brain tumour! We had to send her in for urgent surgery to remove the tumour. Every extra minute that we delayed, we were losing more and more of our daughter. Finally, after borrowing money from everyone we know, the surgery was completed. That was a month ago. But her condition isn’t improving...” — Laila, mother

 

Although she has already been through so much, Fathima needs further treatment 

Thankfully, she doesn't need to go under the knife again. But doctors do want to give Fathima chemotherapy and radiation-therapy to completely cure her of her condition. Without it, Fathima is at terrible risk of losing her sight, losing her hearing, losing the ability to speak, losing her memories and getting seizures. She can even get paralyzed, or die. Over the past week, her parents have noticed that she has already started having difficulty in getting up and walking; she keeps losing her balance and falling. This treatment plan is the only thing that can prevent all this from happening.
 

'Is this our fate? To watch our daughter die in front of us?'

“When I was borrowing all that money for her surgery, I only had one goal in mind: getting my daughter better, bringing her home safe and sound. But now she needs more treatment, and it needs to start immediately! I'm just a fisherman, I can’t pull together so much money within such a short time! I can’t without help. She’s just 6 years old. She just started her 1st standard. She deserves to live!”

 
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