Bihar: Daily wager struggles to arrange Rs 15,000 for surgery

Debashish Karmakar | TNN | Updated: Apr 6, 2020, 11:51 IST

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PATNA: While most daily wagers returned to their homes following outbreak of coronavirus, Sulendra Manjhi (45) decided to stay put in Patna to earn some money so that he can bear the cost of hydrocelectomy which the doctors had suggested him to undergo.
Manjhi, currently staying at Bankipore Girls’ High School quarantine centre, is worried about his treatment. “I had no idea that all sources of earning money would vanish after the lockdown. I urgently require Rs 15,000 to undergo the surgery. I had not been able to arrange the money despite working hard for a year,” he said.
“I have been suffering from the problem for the last two years. Even medicines have stopped providing relief now. Doctors have told me that surgery is the only option. I even visited PMCH where the surgery costs Rs 2,000. However, I was told that ‘pairvi’ is necessary to secure admission at the hospital,” Manjhi, who used to work as a daily wager at a construction site in the city before the lockdown, said.
Manjhi said his wife Ruby does farming work at their Krishna Nagar village under the Atri police station area in Gaya. “Since crops of pulses got destroyed last year, we suffered a huge loss,” he added.