New Delhi: All his kids were born healthy, but by the time they turned 4 or 5, they stopped walking, by 8-10, they stopped crawling, and by 15-16, they became bedridden. The story of a man from Agra who sought mercy killing for his six children was in the news a few months back.
Mohammed Nazir had no choice at that time, but to seek the President’s permission for euthanasia for his 6 out of 8 children aged between 8 to 18 years. Now, the story has taken a new turn.
The Human Welfare Foundation, who adopted the family, has brought them to the Al-Shifa Multi Specialty hospital in Delhi for further treatment.
“I had no option. That’s why I said so at that time. The helps I received were beyond my expectations. It seems that the God sent them to help my family. No, I don’t want my kids to be killed now,” Nazir told T. Arifali, general secretary of the Human Welfare Foundation, an NGO working for the socio – economic development of the weaker sections of the society, when he visited the family at the hospital.
A team of doctors led by Dr. Shifali Gulathi has conducted medical tests on them at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The AIIMS authorities told Madhyamam daily that it was found the same kind of genetic disorders in all the kids of Nazir. “These kind of genetic orders can be cured if it is detected at an early stage. We have begun the primary treatments even before getting the blood test results,” they said.