
“My husband had left me when I was at my weakest. I had a newborn son to look after with no home and no money. If it weren’t for my mother and sister who took us under their care, we would have died from hunger a long time ago. Now, my son, my only solace, has cancer. I don’t have money to save him,” –Naeema, Afnan’s mother.The mother and son were content living in a cramped house until cancer changed their lives foreverNaeema and Afnan lived with Naeema’s mother, Mumtaz, in a small two-room house in Hosur, Karnataka. Despite her age, 60-year-old Mumtaz made enough money to feed them by selling firewood, with Naeema’s help. Everything was fine for three years until Afnan got a fever that persisted for days.Naeema took good care of Afnan with whatever little she had“His body was burning hot. He would even sweat profusely at night and shiver. We took him to a local hospital and the doctors gave him antibiotics. But even they didn’t work. He ended up getting a swelli
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