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Mallampalli native looks forward to U.S. treatment

WARANGAL: It was another day in life for Vendi Rojaneela of Mallampalli village in Duggondi mandal.

Even she was mentally prepared to leave for Hyderabad and then to US with the help of State government, she was picking up cotton in her one acre land trying to overcome the financial predicament.

“I am asked to mobilise Rs. 50,000 for petty expenses in case I am to be sent to US. So, my husband Maraiah and I are generating money from relatives and villagers,” she told The Hindu.

Mrs. Rojaneela said when she visited the NIMS on November 19, one Mr Suresh who was coordinating the Rajiv Arogyasri scheme reportedly told her to come prepared to go to US.

She was asked to submit all certificates such as income, caste and nativity certificates and eight passport photographs. “I gave them all the necessary certificates and photographs. By god’s grace, I got the chance to get full treatment after a long wait,” she said gratefully of the government’s gesture.

The Rajiv Arogyasri beneficiary explained that she was borrowing little sums from the relatives and friends to make Rs. 50,000 before leaving for Hyderabad on December 20. In case, she said if she was asked to get admitted in NIMS, she would save all the money and return them back after coming to village from the hospital. Mrs. Rojaneela was suffering from papillary carcinoma thyroid for about a decade.

In the past, she did get help through the Chief Minister Relief Fund, but she was not completely cured of the disease.

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