When only eight months old, Yadnya Awar developed liver failure because of a rare condition called Budd Chiari Syndrome. He needed a liver transplant to survive, his mother was ready to donate part of her liver to him — but the family couldn’t afford the Rs 2 million that the procedure would require.
Sharing Yadnya’s predicament was seven-year-old Mayuresh, who had a hereditary disease called Citrullinaemia, which had claimed the lives of three of his siblings. For his family, too, the crucial liver transplant surgery was proving unaffordable. These two ...
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First Published: Fri, April 06 2018. 21:23 IST
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