I had posted about a couple, writing to the Indian President seeking mercy killing for their son, Vijay Kumar. Their son has been diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia.
Doctors at CMC Vellore and Tata Motors Hospital, where Vijay is admitted, have prescribed a bone marrow transplant – the cost of which is around Rs 12 lakh, way beyond Ashok’s means.
I am pleasantly surprised that so many of you have expressed concern and want to help this child. Raghuveer’s comment compelled me into action
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More importantly, in this case, if you can find the hospital the kid is in, maybe all of us can sign a petition or write/email the doctors to waive/reduce the fees for this kid? And if you can please find out the status of donations and e-mail me, I will try to pool in money from my friends. Since we have spent hours discussing banalities, we can justifiably spend more time raising money.
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Shivam Vij, Mridula, Satya and Rahul Shukla helped me finding necessary information.And with their help I tracked down NDTV’s Kolkata correspondent Monideepa Banerjie’s mail, who had broken this story. She replied to my mail pretty soon. And with her help, I found out the necessary information:
Vijay’s father Ashok Kumar’s cell no. – 9334629441
If you want, you can send the cheque or draft at any of the three given addresses.
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His Bank: State Bank of India
Account No: 10590922630
Bank Address:
State Bank Of India
Telco Campus
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
831004
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His Address
Mr. Ashok Kumar
Jemco Bus Stand
Mahanand Nagar
Telco Works
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
831004
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You can contribute here too.
Donations to help Vijay can be made by way of a cheque or DD drawn in favour of the “District Collector, Jamshedpur”.
The cheque or DD, with a covering letter specifying that the donation is for Vijay, should be posted to the following address:
Dr N M Kulkarni,
District Collector,
East Singhbhum District,
Deputy Commissioner’s office,
Bishtupur, near Blood Bank,
Jamshedpur 831001
But remember, its not just money. You can spread the word by giving a little space at your blog for this boy.
They have wrote about this issue on their blogs
1. Tarun
2. Ritu
3. Prancer
4. Amrit
5. Mridula
6. Manish
7. This Girl’s Life
The helplessness of a parent is one feeling that can’t be expressed. You give birth to the child and nurture him and have to, someday, give up the right to his life because you cannot AFFORD it. Economics and love….and economics wins.
In this case, it is God’s grace that the story is now being related all over the country and hopefully many more citizens will join hands to give him a new lease of life. My contribution is on its way. And I support your cause Alka…it will find place on my blog.
Ritu, thank you so much for understanding. And I definitely thank you from bottom of my heart that you will put it on your blog. I think, yourself being a mother definitely makes you understand the pain better.
My contribution is also on its way.
I will send something over as soon as I get home from work.BTW came here from Mridula’s place.
Mridula, thank you very much. And thanks for publishing a post on your blog too.
Karmicjay thank you very much.Monideepa Banerjie has written to me that very kind of help will be appriciated. I will write a mail to her about you guys.