Thousands across the country have been struggling with job loss due to the?ongoing pandemic and the resultant lockdown.?It's an uphill task for those who are sole breadwinners of their families.
Karthik, a resident of Guduvanchery, Chennai, is one among the thousands who lost his job as an electronic salesman, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.??He has a five-year-old daughter named, Kavishka, who was born with a serious heart condition,?
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Karthik had taken his daughter to a local clinic where the doctor suggested that she must go through open-heart surgery and has been struggling to gather funds for the same.?
Two years ago, head constable P Senthil Kumar moved in as Karthik's neighbour. Little did he know that the cop would be the one to come to his aid in the gravest of crisis.
＾Just before the lockdown, in February, the doctors had advised Karthik that his girl child should go for an angiogram, but I heard?that he was planning to postpone it since he did not have the money. My wife and I convinced Karthik to go for the angiogram and donated Rs 30,000,￣ Nandambakkam head constable P Senthil Kumar, told?The?New Indian Express.?
In a bid to help Karthik, P Senthil Kumar and police inspector M Thangaraj arranged Rs 5 lakh for the open-heart surgery.?
According to The New Indian Express report, the two policemen consulted with the hospital authorities and collected Rs 45,000 from all the personnel in the station, Rs 1.25 lakh through a government welfare scheme, and another Rs 3 lakh through other sponsors.??
Kavishka was admitted one month ago for the surgery, which lasted for seven hours, and was in ICU for 15 days; she was in the general ward for another 15 days after that.?
Needless to say, it takes a lot of heart to do something for someone else, when you're not in the most comfortable situation yourself. Thanks to these policemen, a little girl might have a healthier and happier life.
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