In India, a 12-year-old boy was found suffering from a rare disease. Mahendra Ahirwar has very weak neck muscles, which is why he cannot keep his head straight - she constantly falls on the chest, then on the right shoulder. The child's parents argue that it is better to be dead than to constantly suffer from such a disease.
The boy's parents - 40-year-old Mukesh and 35-year-old Sumitra - claim that they talked with more than 50 doctors in different parts of India and no one was able to diagnose and offer treatment. “He can't do anything by himself. He just sits all day in the corner of the room. This is not life,”Sumitra Ahirwar says of his son.
She and her husband have to carry the teenager in their arms, he himself, as a rule, only sits. Mahendra can crawl and needs help to eat or, for example, go to the toilet.
“How am I going to wear him when he grows up? - quotes the woman's words The Daily Mail. “If doctors cannot cure my son, may God accept him.”
Mahendra has two brothers, who are 10 and 16 years old, respectively, and a 14-year-old sister. They, like their parents, are healthy. As Mukesh Arkivar said, there were no serious problems during childbirth, all children were born healthy.
The disease began to manifest itself in Mahendra at the age of about six months. According to the father of the family, at first everyone thought that the boy was simply weak and would get stronger over time, but when the child was three years old, he could no longer keep his head upright. To get medical help, Mukesh admitted, he had to borrow money from friends - he himself works as a builder and receives about 200 rupees (about 3.2 dollars) a day.
The man also said that his sick son is often laughed at and he and his wife really do not like it. Mahendra does not go to school and his only friends are brothers and sisters, including cousins. “I want to see him go to school and play with other children. I want him to start living a normal life and I hope that someday this will happen,”Mukesh said.
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