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I am Gaurav Barthakur, an employee of the social sector, and was a former student of TISS, where I did my bachelors in Social Studies and masters in Labour Studies and Social Protection.
My father, survived by my elder brother and I, is in critical condition. He is a patient of a disease similar to Parkinsonism and is currently bravely fighting for his life.
While we struggle with the emotions of caring for our ailing father, we are facing severe financial difficulties in paying off the medical bills.
He is currently admitted in Apollo Hospital, where the daily room charge of the ICU treatment is Rs 7,000 EXCLUDING the cost of treatment and medicines. As soon as he was admitted, my father had been put on Ventilation support and given dialysis treatment.
He has been in the ICU for around 20 days now.
Although , thankfully my father has gained consciousness and can understand us, and almost all of his reports have come out to be normal, which is great news after the harrowing experiences of the past few days.
However, at this point, his condition still isn't clear. While he is conscious, he can't make any muscle movement and only interacts through eye movement with us.
Since the reports didn't clearly indicate towards anything in specific. After much deliberation, the doctors suspected that it might be an auto immune disease called Guillain Barre Syndrome.
He is undergoing the treatment for the same currently , and medication cost of it alone is around 2 lacs Rupees.
Till now, with everyone's help, we have managed to pay around 7.5 lacs, so any further treatment and hospitalisation would put a huge burden on us.
A huge, HUGE thanks to everyone for their donations. It means a lot to my family and I.
I implore this to all of you with folded hands, help me and my brother with the medical bills and save our father as we are trying everything that is in our hands.
I have attached the bills for the hospitalization in the fundraiser and am willing to share it with whoever wishes for the same.
