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Poverty and thalassaemic children

By Our Correspondent 2017-05-22
BAHAWALNAGAR: A labourer belonging to Chak Mominabad seeks the government help for treatment of his two minor sons who are suf fering from thalassaemia.

Muhammad Fiaz, 35, got married with his cousin about 10 yearsago and had four children from the marriage. Two of his children five-year-old Hassan and two-anda-half-years-old Hussain are suffering from thalassaemia. Fiaz says all his life savings and even the jewellery of his wife have been spent on his sons` treatment. He has now run out of money and is unable to carry on his sons` treat-ment. He and his wife are losing hope.

`We often think of committing suicide to get rid of the worst financial circumstances we ever suffered from,` he told Dawn.

Fiaz seeks the government help for his children and pleads to the chief minister to arrange for their treatment.