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IANS
Jaipur, November 22
Tanishq, a two-year-old toddler successful Rajasthan who suffers from the uncommon Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 disorder, is presently battling for his life. An archetypal anticipation for endurance besides diminished aft an injection costing Rs 16 crore, for which his begetter ran from pillar to station to get it, turned ineffective aft the kid turned two.
As the jab is lone applicable for children nether 2 years of age, his parents are present pleading to the authorities authorities to assistance them get an oral medicine.
The medicine called Risdiplam costs astir Rs 72 lakhs. But the terms varies according to the child’s weight.
Since Tanishq's value is astir 7 kg, the medicine volition astir 30-32 lakhs and this is the lone enactment to prevention the child, according to his father.
He further alleged that the medicine is not disposable present contempt 15 different children suffering from the aforesaid disorder.
Only 1 kid is being fixed this medicine, helium added.
Tanishq is shrinking and becoming anemic day-by-day. Since helium keeps getting sick, Tanishq is being sent from Nadwa colony successful Nagaur territory to Jaipur for treatment.
When Tanishq's begetter spoke earlier to the JK Lone Hospital, Jaipur, the doctors said that they person tally retired of funds.
"If the authorities wanted, my kid could person gotten the medicine 2 years ago, but it turned a unsighted oculus to our appeal. I person pleaded to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena, but we did not get thing but assurances." Once Tanishq's begetter received a telephone from the Chief Minister's Office, doctors astatine the JK Lone Hospital said that the oral medicine worthy Rs 30 lakhs would beryllium fixed to the kid wrong 2 years, but thing has happened yet.
Meanwhile, parents of the different children suffering from the uncommon illness person handed implicit a memorandum to the hospital's superintendent RL Gupta. They person besides requested the authorities to assistance successful the attraction of the children.
Gupta said that 14 children are being treated for a uncommon illness and the authorities authorities has spent Rs 1 crore connected this and lone Rs 13 lakh has travel successful crowdfunding.
Doctors person demanded that the crowdfunding wealth should beryllium increased. A missive has besides been sent to the authorities for this.
Gupta has besides asked the pharmaceutical companies to trim the borderline terms of medicines successful the infirmary by utilizing their ain CSR Fund arsenic determination are galore patients.
Overall, 6 per cent of medicines travel from the Central government.
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