Raighar: A poor woman from Nabarangpur district who was suffering from kidney ailment, and had turned critical due to faith healing and herbal medicines, got a new lease of life after a medical team here provided her with financial assistance for scientific treatment, a report said Wednesday.
Sukumabai Gond, 32, is the wife of Trinath Gond of Ghumurapadar in Parua panchayat of Nabarangpur district who was given an assistance of Rs 15,000 was treated at MKCG Medical College and Hospital at Berhampur and discharged after recovery.
The medical team which was abused by Sukumabai’s relatives, however, did not give up and convinced the couple to take medical assistance.
Later, Sukumabai and her family thanked the doctors. They urged people not to believe in superstitions and take medical help.
Sources said, she developed the disease when she was at her parents’ house in Chanabari under Naketisamada panchayat last month.
Trinath rushed to his in-laws’ house and got his wife examined at Jodinga PHC and shifted her to Raighar Hospital and then to Umerkote hospital.
Later, she was shifted to Nabarangpur and then to Koraput Hospital which referred her to the MKCG Medical College and Hospital at Berhampur.
Meanwhile, her condition deteriorated due frequent travel from one hospital to another. Due to his poor financial condition, Trinath gave up all hopes of his wife recovering and brought her back to their village.
There he came under the influence of faith healers and black magicians who advised him to perform certain rituals and give herbal medicines to his wife.
The staff of Raighar Hospital visited Trinath’s home and urged him and his wife not to go for faith healing and take modern medical treatment.
Later, Dr Satya Ranjan Baliarsingh of Hataurandi CHC, Dr Amit Kumar Mandal of Raighar Hospital, supervisors MRK Raju and Haradhan Sarkar, PHEO Gobind Sarkar and female health worker Kabita Dash met the couple at home and convinced them about the benefits of medical treatment. However, their efforts ran into trouble when some relatives of the couple hurled abuses at them and tried to drive them away.
However, the team ignored the opposition and gave Rs 10,000 to Trinath, and urged him to immediately take his wife to the MKCG Hospital.
Trinath realized his folly and rushed his wife first to Nabarangpur and then to Koraput where he completed formalities before admitting his wife at Berhampur MKCG Hospital.
There a team of doctors found that both kidneys of Sukumabai had problems and a nerve was blocked in her head.
She underwent treatment, and the doctors met the couple again and provided them with funds. She was discharged after full recovery.
PNN