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Poverty dims ray of hope for little Anamika

Rakib Ahammed
Unconscious and on life-support, little Anamika has been hanging between life and death at a hospital in Dhaka for the last eight days.
Doctors have administered a ventilator and a cardiac monitoring machine to help her five-year-old heart beat.
The daughter of day labourer Anil Bepari and Geeta Rani of Comilla is now undergoing treatment at Paediatric Intensive Care Unit of Ayesha Memorial Specialised Hospital in Mohakhali. She is suffering from brain infection, pneumonia and heart failure followed by an acute brain stroke.
The parents brought her to the
hospital on September 24 and shifted her to the city's Shishu Hospital two days later fearing the cost of treatment at Ayesha Memorial. But they brought Anamika back to Ayesha Memorial Hospital on September 29 as her condition deteriorated.
"We whisked her back to this hospital [Ayesha Memorial] when she developed a severe breathing difficulty and her skin turned blue," said Anil, the father.
But the unfortunate parents now want to take Anamika back to village as they have Eone far beyond the capacity to ear the medical expense. By this time, the day labourer father has spent Tk 80,000 on the treatment. He has sold the family's last resort, the land they used to live on, and borrowed from friends and relatives to collect money.
"I am totally broke and cannot continue my daughter's treatment here," Anil choked several times with emotion while saying this to The Daily Star yesterday.
"It will take around Tk 10 lakh for the treatment which is simply impossible for me to manage," he added.
Anil and Geeta have been cutting all sorts of expenses by living in the corridors of the hospitals and eating bread, biscuits and banana for the last eight days.
"We ran out of every options
and now have not a single penny to buyAnamika's medicines,” said Geeta, who looks too frail to cry anymore.
On September 22, Anamika felt pain in her neck and hands ana collapsed to the ground. Her parents first took her to Matlab Sadar Hospital where the doctors suggested shifting her to a hospital in the capital for better treatment.
Yesterday Anamika was found on a hospital bed with two pipes through the mouth and nose. The doctors are administeringsaline too.
"She [Anamika] cried and asked me to massage her legs and hands when she woke up the last time," said the mother.
Initially the doctors assumed that Anamika was suffering from GuillainBarre Syndrome but later they found her suffering from several complicacies followed by a brain stroke.
Ashish Kumar Chakraborty, director of Ayesha Memorial Hospital, said Anamika is now living on artificial life support and requires long-term treatment to return to her normal life.
Anamika's parents and the doctors are desperately waiting for response from the well-off community who can give the child her life back just through a gesture of sympathy.
Anyone willing to help Anamika start life anew will find her parents at Ayesha Memorial Hospital.