
There is nothing most 4-year-olds dread more than waking up early in the morning. But not Estaru Rani, she always got out of bed with a smile on her face and looked forward to going to school with her elder brother, Akhil (6). But it has been 6 months since she last stepped out of the house. Only 6 months since a rare cancer of the nervous system wiped the beautiful smile off her face.“Before she got sick, she was a bubbly child who filled our lives with happiness. For poor people like us, children are our only source of joy. My child did not deserve this,” laments Rani’s father Koteswar Rao, a daily-wage labourer in a remote village in Andhra Pradesh.Rani ran a fever for 40 days, that weakened her body and spiritHow did a vivacious, energetic 4-year-old suddenly become so sick? This was the question that troubled Rani’s parents. “It started as a small fever only. We gave her the usual medicines and thought she had eaten something bad. But it did not go away. It started int
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