Chhattisgarh: Family Toils To Save Son Fighting With Brain Cancer, Lives On Footpath

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Chhattisgarh,  16 Nov 2022 5:31 AM GMT

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She is hailing from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. She is pursuing Bachelors degree in Mass Communication planning to set off her career as a content crafter.

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A couple from a small town in Chhattisgarh have sold off whatever little they owned and are living on a footpath outside AIIMS-Raipur in the hope of saving their 13-month-old son who brain cancer. The family's plight came to light when a video of the mother administering oxygen via a portable machine to the baby, as he lay asleep or unconscious, in a saree-hammock outside the gates of AIIMS. The child was undergoing chemotherapy at AIIMS, and streetside neighbors, doctors and hospital staff, shared the family's story.