West Bengal Labourer Travelled Over 2,000 km To Save His Son From Liver Cancer With Just Rs 3,000 in His Pocket

“I am a contract labourer who makes Rs 2,500 a month, if work is available. When I learnt that my son, Deb, has a tumour in his liver, I panicked but I knew that I had to take an action fast. People from my village, who work in Bengaluru, told me that there are very good hospitals in Bengaluru for cancer treatment. So I borrowed Rs 3,000 from relatives and  took the very next train to Bengaluru from my village in Malwa, West Bengal, with my son.”-Santhosh Mandal, father of 6-year-old Deb Mandal who has liver cancer.About 4 months back, Deb got a piercing pain in his abdomen that has lasted to this dayWhen Deb complained of pain in his tummy one day, Santhosh and his wife, Jhuma, believed that it was because he had eaten something rotten. After all, the family was used to eating old food because they couldn’t afford groceries for everyday use. But the pain got worse and was accompanied by a high fever that refused to go away.“The doctor at the medical centre in our village gav
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