3-Day-Old Baby Born Without A Food Pipe Is Starving And Needs A Surgery Today

“My son was born on the 17th. He has not had a single drop of breastmilk since birth because he cannot swallow anything. He is so tiny and helpless. He cannot survive another day without help.” - Sarjeet SinghThe baby was crying constantly after birth; his mother could not do anything to comfort himSarjeet’s wife, Saranjeet Kaur, had a smooth pregnancy and her scans never showed any problem. But soon after the baby was born and given to her, she noticed that he would just not feed.“My wife tried everything to get the baby to suckle. Even the nurses at the local hospital in UP where she gave birth, tried everything in their capacity. When nothing helped, the doctors said that we have to take him to a better hospital in Delhi because they could not understand what was wrong with him.” - SarjeetWith his newborn son’s condition getting worse, Sarjeet had no option but to leave his wife behind and rush to DelhiThe baby’s mother Saranjeet was still recovering at the hospital a
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23-Day-Old Baby Born With Intestine Outside His Body Has Few Hours Left To Get A Life-Saving Surgery

“For 20 days, I carried my little baby from one hospital to another, desperately trying to find someone who can save him. Many would look at the intestine outside his body and tell us he can’t be saved. They even asked me to give up. I would then cover him again and go to the next hospital, while he cried all the way. Now I’ve finally found a little hope but he has only a few hours left to get the surgery, and I have nothing left to save him." In the silence of the waiting room outside the ICU, sobs of a helpless father are heard. Sometimes, Fardin sits quietly in a corner in complete shock, while at other times, he paces up and down worried sick about how he’s going to save his youngest son’s life. 23-day-old Mohammad Hasin has been in severe pain ever since birth. He was born with a part of his large intestine outside his body, and without an urgent surgery, baby Hasin doesn’t have long to live.Baby Hasin was turned away from treatment in many hospitals before thisBab
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Deadly Seizures From A Brain Infection Can End This 4-year-old’s Life Without Help

“For the past 15 days, we have been waiting outside the ICU for some good news. But our baby girl hasn’t opened her eyes or even moved a limb yet. She looks lifeless, with all the tubes running through her limp body. I want to call out to her and tell her that we are always there by her side, and that she is safe, but I know she can’t hear me.”-Kiran Kumar, father of 4-year-old Upanya.The last time Upanya spoke to her parents was when she was shivering with a high fever that quickly escalated into seizuresIt was dead in the night when Upanya was tossing and turning in bed with a fever that was getting worse by the minute. Nothing her mother Swarnalata did was easing her condition, and she had to be taken to hospital in Khamam from their village in Thallada at 3 am the next morning.Little Upanya loved going to school and dancing “Her body was burning. We rushed her to the hospital, and she was admitted immediately. On the third night at the hospital, she started getting fits
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Farmer In Debt Can't Save His 3-Year-Old From Heart Disease That Has Stunted His Growth And Is Threatening His Life

“When I see him laughing and playing with the kids, for a fleeting second I feel that he is also normal. But reality strikes me when I see him stop all of a sudden and pant heavily. His heart is failing him day after day…as a poor farmer, I can only wish that I had enough money to fix it”-Sandeep, father of 3-year-old Samar.Samar was born with two holes in his heart that made it difficult for him to even breatheAt birth, 3-year-old Samar looked absolutely normal; it was only after he turned 2 months old that he started getting breathing troubles all of a sudden. He was found to have two holes between the two upper chambers of his heart. This was causing oxygen-rich blood to leak into the oxygen-poor chambers of the heart.“He could not feed properly. At first, I thought that it was because I had a heavy let-down of milk. But soon I noticed that he started getting breathless. It did not look normal for a baby; I had never experienced it with my first-born. It was after we took h
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Instead of Joining Anganwadi, 3-year-old Cries Continuously At The Cancer Ward Begging To Go Home

“She is so full of life. How could God give this terrible disease to such a small child? We console each other and keep repeating that we will somehow save her.” – Pramila, Rohini's mother.Rohini is a 3-year-old with blood cancer. She has spent the last three weeks in hospitals, fighting off fevers and pain. She is scared of doctors and the endless blood tests. Her father Veerabhadra is a helper in a supermarket and is in no position to save his little girl from cancer.It has only been a week since Rohini's cancer was diagnosedThis year, Rohini was to start going to the local Anganwadi – where she could get used to being away from home for school. In a cruel twist of fate, she spent her third birthday in a hospital, crying to go home. Her parents Veerabhadra and Pramila have still not had the time to accept that their child has cancer.“It started two months back, she kept having high fever. Last month, we even admitted her to the hospital. Two whole months, she was this sic
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This 12-Year-Old Dying Of Blood Cancer Thinks He Will Never Walk Again Without Support

“Roju had come home for the holidays just the day before. He could never go back to school after the break. When he tried to get up, he began to shake and fall. His legs weakened and couldn't fully support him. His life changed in a day.” - says Pushpa, Roju's mother.12-year-old Roju Paul studies in the 8th grade in a government school outside his village near Ongole, in Andhra Pradesh. He was a bright student, and had come back home for his summer break, with his elder siblings. The very next day he woke up with a high fever. His family suspected it to be a heat stroke and gave him some over the counter medication. But by the evening he had begun to slowly lose movement in his legs.  When Roju's condition deteriorated, his poor parents rushed him to Hyderabad but couldn't find help thereHis parents, Yesudas and Pushpa, rushed him to the doctor in their village. He quickly realised it was a serious issue and sent them to the government hospital in Ongole. There, the doctors initi
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This 1-Month-Old Baby Who Has Extra Acid In Her Body And A Heart Disease Needs Urgent Help To Survive

“She’s just a month old and she has needles all over her body and pipes on her mouth. We never imagined that our first baby would be fighting for her life already. It’s so heartbreaking because she can’t even breathe without the ventilator and has been in the ICU for 3 weeks.” – Somesh, the baby’s father.Pratibha’s baby girl was rushed to ICU within 3 days of birthSomesh and Pratibha’s excitement to begin their new journey as parents were torn apart when their baby girl developed a never-ending fever and severe breathing issues within just 3 days of birth. The 1-month-old girl has been suffering from sepsis, which is a severe bacterial infection which could kill her if left untreated. She has been in the ICU for around 3 weeks. She is supported by the ventilator and many of her vital organs, like her heart are functioning abnormally too. She also has a deadly metabolic disorder because there is a dangerous amount of acid in the girl’s body.“Apart from the fever a
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