“Shinu hadn’t seen such a big hospital before. She thought it was a mall and told me how nice and posh it looked. My poor child doesn’t know that she was being admitted there because of her bad heart,” says Sajitha, Shinu’s mother.Shinu Vinod is going to be 6 years old this month. But she has a heart defect that may not let her live till her next birthday. An urgent surgery is her only shot at survival.Shinu's parents blamed their family's abject poverty for her weaknessLittle Shinu always looked younger than her peers; she was underweight and regularly suffered from breathlessness. Her parents thought that their poverty was to be blamed for Shinu’s problems. “We could not afford to buy expensive fruits and vegetables, because I am a rubber tapper and work is hard to come by. Some days, I make enough money to feed my family of six – Shinu, her elder brother Sanu, my wife, my mother and brother some rice congee while on other days we have to make do with old food. I bel
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