The story dates back to the time when used to work in Haryana of India two years ago. While there, one day he suffered from diarrhea and went to a clinic to get some medicines. [break]The chemist at the clinic, however, advised him to take an injection instead of pills. Sahani took the injection as well as some pills and the illness got cured.
Only it caused a side effect that afflicts him till today.
After sometime, the part of his leg where he was injected started swelling and he felt excruciating pain. Sahani went to the same chemist and bought some medicines on his advice again. Instead of getting cured, a lesion appeared in the same part of his leg after two months.
This time he met a doctor, who asked him to get the wound operated. As he had no money for the operation, he returned Nepal to his home.
Back in Nepal, he kept spending money for the treatment of the same wound and ended up selling off most of his property.
At his hometown, he went to a clinic run by Lakhan Thakur, who asked Rs 2500 promising complete cure. Sahani paid Rs 2000 and got the wound operated.
The operation made no difference as his wound did not heal. Sahani said, “Thakur had asked me to wait and see. I waited for more than seven months and, eventually, after there was no improvement, he told me to go somewhere else.”
Sahani then went to Darbhanga, Bihar, where a doctor named Diwakaran Mishra operated on his wound. After the operation, he stayed there for a month. “Fifteen days after I returned from Darbhanga, he began to feel the pain again.”
He was advised by someone to go to Bharatpur Cancer Hospital.
“The doctors at the hospital said it was not cancer but nonetheless asked me to undergo a surgery,” said Sahani. Following the advice, he again went to a surgeon Sunil Kumar Sinha of Darbhanga. Once again, the same wound was operated. But the wound was not cured and pain persisted in the same manner.
Out of his nine katthas of land, Sahani sold six katthas. As the pain severed, he mortgaged his remaining land for loan. The Village Development Committee (VDC), from where he hails, offered him Rs 10,000. Out of this amount, he only received Rs 8000. He says, “The VDC secretary asked me not to expect more than that. Rs 2000 was his cut for helping me get the amount.” District Development Committee (DDC) also helped him with Rs 2000 for the treatment.
The money Sahani received from these sources was pittance against the money he spent for the treatment. He says, “The money I collect begging in the street can only afford my food. As I have no money to treat, I buy some cotton from medicine shop and regularly wash my wound.”
Nowadays, he is left with no option but begging. He also wanders from one organization to other to collect money for medicines.
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