FIGHTING WITH HOPE by Bidhan Sarkar

Winner Story #3 – International Thalassaemia Day 2019

”I was born in a small village in Bangladesh. Four years later, one renowned child specialist diagnosed me as E-beta thalassaemia and gave a prognosis that my life span would be 15 to 20 years old. My parents at that time expected another child and soon my sister was born. I had grown up with inadequate transfusion and a series of maltreatment. Sometimes my parents would take me to India for better treatment, but most time we couldn’t follow the treatments’ schedule due to their high costs…”.