Mr. Lanh's family needs help.

(Baonghean.vn) - To amputate a leg with a leaking marrow would cost 30 million VND, but Mr. Lanh's family is too poor. His wife has to work hard every day to feed their two children, while he has to lie in one place with a necrotic leg that is causing excruciating pain...

The house of Vo Cong Lanh (born in 1981, hamlet 5, Dien Quang commune, Dien Chau district, Nghe An) is shabby and empty, the garden is deserted and quiet. Mr. Lanh has to lie in bed, his left foot is covered with a blanket but cannot prevent the fishy smell because his foot is necrotic. His wife, Nguyen Thi Tuyet, is working as a hired worker, the house has only him and their 3-year-old child.

Hung (3 years old) must always stay by his father's bedside.

Lanh is the youngest child, suffering from epilepsy since childhood, so his health is always weak. When he reached adulthood, epilepsy still haunts and torments him. While working, he suddenly has a seizure, his face turns dark and he falls down, not knowing anything. Because his family is too poor, as soon as he recovers, he goes back to work. His daughter Khanh Ly was born in 2007, and right after birth, she had to be hospitalized for a coccyx tumor. Having saved a little money, Tuyet took Khanh Ly to have surgery, but her coccyx did not heal and kept pushing out pieces of flesh and pus.

In 2009, Hung was born, and the family was in dire straits. His mother worked hard all day without rest and lacked food, so when Hung was born he was so weak that he had to stay in a glass incubator for months. His right leg was also clubbed, his arm was crippled and curled up against his ribs, and his face always looked absent-minded as if he were sleepy.

To have money to treat his two children, Mr. Lanh went from the upper village to the lower village to work as a construction worker. He was always willing to work for anyone who offered him work, regardless of how much or how little he was paid, just hoping to have money to bring home. But disaster struck him. In 2009, while working as a construction worker on a scaffolding, he suddenly had an epileptic seizure, fell from the scaffolding to the ground, and suffered a spinal injury. He was scheduled for surgery to fix his spine. The cost of this surgery was about 20 million VND. Unable to find any money, she held back her tears and took him home. The wound was not treated so he could not walk and could only lie in one place. But the worst thing was that his excretory system no longer worked, from urination to defecation, Ms. Tuyet had to help her husband.

Lying in one place, both legs began to go numb and show signs of paralysis, the wound on the left heel festered and ulcerated, the pain reaching to the brain. Going to the hospital for examination, the doctors shook their heads in pity: he had a bone marrow leak, the leg could not be saved anymore, had to be transferred to Hanoi hospital to be amputated (estimated to cost 30 million VND), while the couple still owed the bank 20 million VND. For 3 years, Mr. Lanh was bedridden, Ms. Tuyet had to take care of her husband, take care of the children, and work as a hired hand, earning enough to eat was already very lucky, let alone money for medical treatment! The land that her grandparents left behind was also gradually cut down and sold to cover the cost of treatment for all 3 father and son. Even the cow that was supported by social organizations was sold, now there was nothing left to sell. According to the treatment plan, Khanh Ly had to go for a follow-up examination after the surgery, but the family was too poor so they had to leave her at home. The surgical wound was festering and festering, so Khanh Ly often had a fever and lay in bed.

Mr. Vo Cong Chinh - head of hamlet 5, said: "Mr. Lanh's family is in a particularly difficult situation. Ms. Tuyet has no job so she is hungry all year round. The people in the hamlet feel sorry for her and give her all the support policies from the government, but it only solves a small part of the problem."

Seeing his wife struggling and having difficulty, and his children sick and weak, Mr. Lanh turned his face to the wall and wiped his tears: Many nights I was in pain and couldn't sleep. I kept wishing that if I had the money to amputate my leg, when my wound healed I could go to work again, and the 20 million VND I owed the bank would be gradually paid off, easing the burden on my wife who had to take care of me every day, and helping my children recover so they could go to school.

Dam Phuong