The pain of a mother who has no money for her daughter's heart surgery

(Baonghean.vn) - GIn a family of 4, 3 people have mental illness, the old mother has liver disease and is now worried about where to find money to pay for her daughter's heart surgery.

That is the situation of Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan's family in Hung Tan, Hung Nguyen. Her daughter - Ho Thi Oanh (born 2001) has a mental illness, and last August, was discovered to have a leaky heart valve.

Ms. Lan said: "Seeing that my child was tired and emaciated, my family took him to Nghe An General Hospital for examination, but he fainted in the clinic and had to be taken to the Emergency Resuscitation Department. In less than two weeks, he had lost 5 kg. The doctor said he had to have an emergency surgery, as it would be life-threatening if he waited too long. But to have heart surgery with the poor household insurance, the family would need at least 40 million VND."

The father and his three sons are all mentally ill, so Lan takes care of everything. Photo: Dam Phuong

With no money for surgery, Oanh was brought home. Seeing her sick child every day, Lan was worried and didn't know how to get 40 million VND. Her family had 4 mouths to feed, 3 father and 3 children with 3 social security salaries that could only pay more than 1 million VND. She alone could not manage the 5 sao of contracted rice fields, her paternal relatives joined in to support, help, pay for labor, seeds, fertilizer, grass,... but if the harvest was good, there would be enough rice to eat, but if the harvest was bad, they would be hungry for several months and had to eat porridge and corn instead of rice.

Ms. Lan cried when talking about her situation and the worry of not having enough money for her daughter's heart surgery. Photo: Dam Phuong

Through investigation, it was learned that Ms. Lan herself was too old to get married. She knew that Mr. Thinh was sick, but seeing that he was gentle, she felt sorry for him. The couple got married with nothing, because he did not know how to work, so the older brother created a job for Ms. Lan's husband by buying a cow for him to herd and paying him in rice. But when giving the cow to Mr. Thinh, everyone was not at ease because they were afraid that he would have an unstable temperament and let the cow run away. At home, they listened to whatever his wife said without knowing right from wrong. The three of them did not know about money or the difference between rice and sticky rice...

She hoped her children would be different, but unexpectedly, her two daughters, Ho Thi Hang (born 2000) and Ho Thi Oanh (born 2001), were both foolish, both of them were like their father, so she suffered since the day she married him. Even changing clothes, feeding, bathing, she took care of everything by herself. She did all the big and small things in the house by herself. She tried to overcome all the pain because of her love for her husband and children. But Lan's biggest pain and worry now is that she still cannot manage to find the money to pay for Oanh's surgery.

Although Oanh is a young adult, she still cannot do anything. Lan has to guide her even in the simplest tasks like cooking. Photo: Dam Phuong

Lan's biggest wish now is for a miracle, for someone, for an organization to extend its arms of kindness to support and help her and her child, so that she can have the funds for heart surgery for her poor little daughter. The child that she has devoted all her love to raising and caring for, even though that child is not healthy and normal like other children. But that child is still her child, her own flesh and blood...

Ha Linh