“I’ve always wanted to serve my country. I also applied for Navy entrance exams and they are due this month end. The doctors have said I need treatment for 6 months and cannot appear for my exams as a result. I think I would make it to the Navy someday, if I manage to fight cancer."– Ganesh.
They cannot buy him a cricket bat, leave alone pay for chemotherapy
Ganesh, the only son of Srinivas and Nagamani from Gunadala, Vijayawada has come of age. He strongly feels he should study well, join the Navy and take care of his daily-wager parents, who have struggled for more than two decades. Unfortunately, he has blood cancer, and it has virtually tied him to hospital beds, chaining his dreams.This teenager is also an avid cricket enthusiast, but as fate and poverty would have it, the poor parents cannot even afford to get him a good quality cricket bat to play with friends. It is this family that is now staring at the requirement of a whopping 8 lakh rupees to treat his cancer.
'My son dares to dream despite his illness and our grinding poverty'
“Ganesh is currently in the first year of his B.Sc Computers at Siddhartha College and is a diligent student, hoping to become a Navy officer one day. He was a regular at college even until two days before he was detected with cancer and moved to Manipal. Our boy loves us intensely and more than the cancer, his guilt of becoming a burden on us is eating him up. My wife. Nagamani, and I earn barely enough to keep body and soul together. I am a daily wage worker at a carpentry store and she slogs whole day at a local school as a helper. ” - Srinivas, Ganesh’s father.
'It hurts when he eats, so he's losing weight rapidly'
Nagamani recalls how Ganesh came back from college a couple of weeks back with terrible swelling in his face and intense pain in the throat, so much so that he could not even swallow the tablets that the local RMP gave him. It was in such a context of a race against time that he was moved immediately from Vijayawada to the Manipal hospital.
“A young lad who was bubbly until a few days ago is now unable to take in even a morsel of food. He often cries due to the unbearable pain. To see a grown up child cry inconsolably breaks me from within,” says Nagamani, breaking down herself.
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The specifics of this case have been verified by the medical team at the concerned hospital. For any clarification on the treatment or associated costs, contact the campaign organizer or the medical team.
