Vaishali, a six-year-old Pune girl suffered from a hole in her heart and her family was unable to afford an expensive heart surgery. Her father is a small time painter and had even sold her toys and bicycle to buy medicines for his ailing daughter.
Vaishali, a student class II, then decided to write a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to help her by explaining her health condition and her family’s financial inability to meet the huge medical expenses.
The little girl was promptly granted help from the PMO following which she underwent surgery and is now recovering.
Within a week, the Prime Minister’s Office alerted the Pune district administration that prompted them to help the girl. After tracing the whereabouts of the girl, the district authorities rushed the girl to the city-based Ruby Hall Clinic where she was successfully operated upon free of charge on June 2.
“Vaishali had a hole in the heart and after consulting various hospitals, we came to know that the surgery expenses were above rupees three lakhs. However, due to our poor economical background and lack of below poverty line (BPL) documents, the surgery was not possible,” said Vaishali’s uncle Pratap Yadav, reported Hindustan Times.
“A month back, Vaishali was watching TV where she saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi and upon seeing him, she decided to write a letter to him, explaining the financial condition and about her ailment…She wrote the letter and attached her school ID card with it and asked me to post it, which I did with an assumption that we would not get any reply. However, within a week, a few people from the school, along with some district administration staff, came looking for us and later a meeting was called with the collector,” Yadav told the media.
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News agency PTI reported that the district collector Sourabh Rao said that they “received the correspondence from PMO on May 24 and immediately the family was traced…Dr Shrikar Pardeshi, IAS officer and Director in the PMO, personally called me to inform about the letter and asked to help the girl accordingly.”
“After coming to know that the girl required medical help, she was admitted to the Ruby Hall Clinic hospital and was operated upon free of cost,” said Rao.
Dr Sanjay Pathare, medical director of Ruby Hall Clinic, said the girl was admitted to the hospital on June 2 and was operated upon on June 4.
“The girl is fine and healthy now and was discharged on Wednesday,” he said.
The news report said that Rao said a report of her surgery has been sent to the PMO by his office after she was discharged from the hospital.
The article first published on www.lafdatv.com
The article first published on www.lafdatv.com
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