LITTLE did Mangala, parent of an 11-year-old boy from Kolkata, know that her pursuit of a cure for cancer would lead her to an abode of support miles away in Puducherry. When she walked into Shine Home, a couple of kilometres off the Regional Cancer Centre at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), she was still staring at a hazy future.
Mangala's son has been battling leukaemia, a type of blood cancer, for nearly two years. What forced the family to shift his treatment to the RCC from a private hospital back home were two factors: financial constraints and the absence of a support system. As they went through the most trying time of their life, the family found warmth at the home, which has hosted 22 such children and their families over five years.
"My family runs on the meagre income of my husband, who is a supplier of confectionaries and household items to a bunk shop. We were forced to come to Puducherry. Not only do we have a place to stay and tend to my son's treatment, but we are able to provide nutritional food to him," says Mangala.
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