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’Help save Saswoto’

Staff Correspondent
Sammilito Sangskritik Jote yesterday appealed for help from the people of all walks of life to save Saswoto Satya, a 1st year student of the department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Rajshahi University (RU). who is suffering from almost an incurable disease.
Saswoto has been suffering from 'Seronegative Spondyloarthopathy' with advanced arthritis for 11 years. Both the hip joints of Saswoto have got damaged. His two knee joints and eye retinas are also affected. All the bones of his body arc getting weak and his blood pressure is very low.
In this situation, if proper treatment cannot be provided to Saswoto, he might meet death very soon, said President of Sammilito Sangskritik Jote Nasir Uddin Yusuf Bachchu while presenting a keynote paper at the press conference at the Dhaka Reporters' Unity auditorium in the city.
Arpn Satya, father of Saswoto, is a retired schoolteacher of Sugar Mill High School of Natore and the only earning member of the four-member family, resides at a D-grade quarter in Natore. The family has already spent around Tk 13 lakh for his treatment in the last nineyears.
After a medical check-up at Velore in India in June this year. Saswoto's family came to know that the disease is almost incurable but he will get back to his almost normal life if a two-year continu-
ous treatment can be ensured for him, said Nasir Uddin Yusuf.
A total of Tk 35 lakh will be needed for the hip joint replacement, biological injection to regain immune body power, to make the bones strong and for other logistic supports for the treatment at Velore.
The students, teachers and employees of Mass Communication and Journalism department of RU have formed Saswoto Treatment Assistance Committee. The committee is trying to raise funds for his treatment in two savings accounts. The account numbers are. 34260498 Agrani Bank, Rajshahi University branch and 135-101-33705, Swift Code: DBBL-BD-DH-100, Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd, Rajshahi branch.
Saswoto Treatment Assistance Committee yesterday also arranged a stage drama 'Joiboti Koinnar Mon' at the Jatiya Natyashala at 7:00pm. The drama was staged after six years in the memory of playwright Salim Al Din and to observe the 35 years of Dhaka Theatre.
The proceeds from the play will be donated for the treatment of Saswoto, said the associate professor of Mass Communication department of RU Abdullah Al Mamun.
Mother of Saswoto Shikha Satya. Secretary' of the Jote Golam Kuddus and Associate Prof of Mass Communication and Journalism department at Dhaka University Kaberi Gayen addressed the press conference.