Vijayapura: Family decides to convert religion for child’s treatment, drops plan after MLA offers help

Team Udayavani, Mar 29, 2022, 10:40 AM IST

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Vijayapura: A Hindu family, which was struggling for financial resources for their child’s treatment reportedly even considered converting their religion after a hospital in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore promised to make all arrangements for the same.

According to a TNIE report, the child’s father Eranna (34) a resident of Basava Bagewadi works at a Dhaba for a salary of Rs 12,000. His son suffers from Thalassemia, a rare disorder. The family has toured different cities in South India in the hope to get better medical treatment for him and has spent over Rs 3 lakh so far. During one such visit, a hospital in Vellore, which is run by a Christian missionary offered to make arrangements for their son’s treatment, including charges for the bone marrow transplant on the condition that the family offers prayers in the church on a daily basis for a period of two months.

As the family was in financial distress, they decided to take up the offer and even considered converting their religion. However, when Congress legislator M B Patil, president of BLDE Association, came to know of their plight he directed the hospital officials to extend free treatment to the boy.

Following his assurance, the family is said to have dropped the religious conversion plan.