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Help Rehabilitate Shafi

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Help rehabilitate Shafi. With sufficient funds, he can get adequate rehabilitation and stands a good chance at living an independent life with limited functionality. We need funds to take him to CMC Vellore, Tamil Nadu, for rehabilitation.
Details below.

Name: Shafi
Age: 26, Male
Location: Vengad, Anjarakandy, Kannur district, Kerala, India.
Religion: Islam

Condition:
Traumatic Paralysis.
Paralysed 18 months ago in a lorry accident. (Spinal cord injury)
Has limited movement of upper limbs.
Almost complete paralysis below the neck.
Bedsores
Complicated urinary infection due to loss of urinary bladder control.
Hands, knees and feet has developed contractures.
Poor financial state delayed timely treatment and rehabilitation thereby worsening complications.

Medical diagnosis:
Traumatic C6-C7 Listhesis with Quadriparesis (C5-C7 fusion with anterior stabilisation done)
Autonomic dysfunction
Neurogenic bladder with recurrent urethroperineal fistula.
Pressure sores (lumbosacral)
Hands, knees and feet contractures.

Cause of trauma:
Road traffic accident in January 2017. ( was a truck driver, the truck he was driving met with an accident)

Year of accident: January 2017.

Past profession: Truck driver

Family status:
He is the eldest of six boys. His father is an auto-rickshaw driver, the only earning member in the family. His mother is a house wife and one younger brother is a case of cerebral palsy. Currently the father is struggling to make ends meet due to poor health and difficult family circumstances. None of the other siblings are working. Shafi's daily caregiver is his immediate younger brother.

Educational status: studied upto 7th standard.

Marital status: Single

Fund needed for treatment and rehabilitation. INR 4.35lakhs

Planned interventions:

1.Corrective surgery for deformities, physiotherapy and occupational therapy at Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu.

2.Home modification
3.Vocational rehabilitation

Extremely conservative estimate of interventions: INR 4.35 lakhs

Breakdown of expenses:

Rehabilitative surgery: INR 1 lakh
Inpatient physiotherapy and occupational therapy for three months, including wheelchair: INR 1.2 lakhs
Food, personal and allied expenses for three months including travel expenses: INR 1.15lakhs
Home modification expenses: INR 1lakh

Expected outcome:
Ability to move around at home independently and manage personal care activities like going to the toilet independently.
At a later stage he can be vocationally rehabilitated to enable him to work and earn for himself. The latter will require additional funding.

Expected time frame for fundraising: 2 months.

Bill from Rajagiri hospital, Kochi.

CMC Vellore advance payment receipt

Shafi's photo

Discharge summary from medical college hospital Kozhikode

Summary of documents

Medical document

Discharge summary from medical college hospital, Kozhikode

Recent scan report

Referral letter

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30th October 2018

Dear Supporters,

I am stopping the fundraiser for Shafi for now. He is at CMC Vellore undergoing rehabilitation and is doing well. The funds have been withdrawn and will be transferred to his mother's account soon. Around 2 lakhs have been spent so far on hospital and personal expenses so far over the past five months. I'm grateful to all who supported this initiative in various ways. The fundraiser can be commenced later if there is a need.

Around Rs 94000 has been used in cash over the past four months on local hospital expenses, ambulance, medicines and materials and food. This also includes the personal expenses at CMC Vellore over the past one month. The total amount collected has been almost 6.5 lakhs of which around INR 1.6 lakhs have been spent. An amount of around 3.5 lakhs has been transferred to his mother's account and the remaining amount from the withdrawal from Milaap will be transferred to the same account once it's withdrawn to my account. I'm handling funds directly.

Let's hope he improves soon and is gainfully rehabilitated.

22nd October 2018

Shafi is to undergo two surgeries this week at CMC Vellore, one to close the bed sore and another to help him bend his knee joint. Since the desired fund has been raised, I wish to close the campaign for now. So far we've spent around Rs 1.3 lakh. I'm attaching some bills to confirm the same. I wish to thank again each and every person who contributed with time effort money and goodwill to help Shafi so far. More help will be needed in future when another campaign can be run to raise funds.

21st August 2018

I have collected almost 66k already from family and friends. Shafi is currently lodged in a charitable hospital till funds are raised to transfer him to CMC Vellore.