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Unidentified skin disorder distresses eight-year-old
BHURUNG, DEC 23 - An eight-year-old boy has been suffering from a mysterious skin disease for the past few years but has not undergone any treatment due to the weak economic condition of his family.
Prabin Fagami, second son of Som Bahadur Fagami of Bhurung-Tatopani in Myagdi, has a strange skin problem. When his hand or any object is run over his limbs the skin peels off and blood starts to ooze from below. His condition was discovered accidentally by a teacher at the Himalaya Primary School at Mandraydhunga, where Prabin is a class one student. The teacher, while trying to help Prabin gets up from the ground, found that the skin came off in his hand.
Though Prabin has been living with this condition for more than a year, he has been unable to have his problem attended to. To worsen matters, it is learnt that his parents are both mentally deficient.
The skin all over his body is affected by this problem, which is evident from the numerous scars on his body. Sores and wounds, due to the skin peeling off takes a long time to heal.
The boy at times is scared and mentally disturbed to find his skin different from that of other boys his age. As his family members had been keeping his disease a secret from others, even neighbours were unaware of Prabin’s affliction. No other member of his family has the problem.
His father says that they had him checked at the health-post in Tatopani, but could find no remedy.
Prabin’s teacher had advised that he could be cured in Pokhara or Kathmandu, but they do not have any money for treatment at these centres, expresses Prabin’s father.
Prabin’s lady teacher, Bishnu Kumari Garbuja said that Prabin is good at study, friendly and is popular with his classmates and peers.
Garbuja maintains, that they have reiterated their idea of helping the boy with whatever small amount they can collect for his treatment at some big hospital.Posted on: 2003-12-24 04:55
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