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Helping an accident victim find his feet

An artificial leg can put Vaisakh’s life back on the track

Kozhikode: At 13, Vaisakh should be running around playing football and his other favourite games. However, a road accident in September 2007 dashed his hopes of playing again. Or of going to the Junior Technical School in Payyoli, where he was studying in the eighth standard, in pursuit of his ambition to become an engineer.

“But we want to put him back on his feet. We want to help him overcome his handicap. “For that, he needs money because medical expenses are very high these days,” says E.V. Sankaran, convener of a committee formed by people in his hometown for his rehabilitation.

His father, Sasidharan, a primary school teacher, has spent a fortune on hospital bills.

His source of strength and confidence is now his friends in Perambra who have initiated a community-level action to support him. Vaisakh’s right leg was amputated after a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus ran him over near Kakkattil, a little away from Perambra.

He was riding pillion on a motorbike.

A micro-vascular surgery was performed on the left leg, which is yet to regain strength.

Only after two months of complicated and expensive treatment in a private hospital in Kozhikode city could he be declared out of danger.

An artificial leg can put Vaisakh’s life back on the track. His family friends and relatives have started a campaign to raise funds to provide an artificial limb.

It costs Rs. 5 lakh, something unaffordable for a primary school teacher.

“An artificial limb can give him support to return to school to continue his studies,” Mr. Sasidharan says.

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