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Employees of International Inspection Services Ltd, part of LAMPRELL Group, from the United Arab Emirates and Oman contributed OMR1,000 for Vishak’s treatment. The company’s Country Manager–Oman, Vinod K Sukumaran, handed over the donation to Muhammad Zakariya Babur, principal of Pakistan School Muscat and team leader of the educational subcommittee of the Times of Oman Readers’ Club, in the presence of Vinod Panicker, chief patron of the Times of Oman Readers’ Club. Earlier, the Diwan of the Royal Courts’ project team for the Oman Botanic Garden project and the Consolidated Contractors Company team for an airport project had also donated a combined sum of OMR405. Photot – Mohammed Ali / Times of Oman
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Muscat: Vishak, the 11-year-old Indian expatriate boy, who is suffering from aplastic anaemia—a condition where the bone marrow does not produce enough new blood cells to replace the old ones—will undergo a bone-marrow transplant at Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore in India, according to the medics and his parents.
Readers of Times of Oman have, thus far, raised OMR15,014 in 40 days, and the social workers in Sur have raised nearly Rs600,000 (OMR 4,225) for the Indian boy's treatment.
"During the last 40 days, the readers of Times of Oman have raised OMR15,014. Readers have responded to our charity initiative positively. Two days ago, students and staff at Indian School Jalan donated OMR373.750. We thank everyone. The amount will be handed over to the hospital authorities to meet the treatment expenses," Vinod Panicker, chief patron of the Times of Oman Readers' Club, said.
Vishak is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in the South-Indian state of Kerala.
According to medics, the cost of the life-saving surgery, which is a permanent recovery solution, will be around OMR17,986.
"At present, the child's life is being sustained by weekly blood transfusions at his home in
Payyannur, Kerala, but his doctors have recommended a bone-marrow transplant, which is the definitive treatment for this condition. It could give him a second chance at life if he receives marrow that matches and the transplant is successful," Reghunandan, a senior medic in a Sur government hospital, told Times of Oman.
Reghunandan is in close touch with the Indian medics and has already spoken with Dr Vikram Mathews of CMC about performing the surgery.
"Bone-marrow matching tests revealed that the tissues of the child's parents do not satisfy the criteria for a bone-marrow transplant. Since the child does not have siblings, the next step is to search for matching unrelated donors — either cord blood or matched unrelated donors —which is much more expensive. If the parents' tissue had matched, the cost would have been lower. But since their bone marrow does not match, we are looking for matched unrelated donors," stated Reghunandan, who is also the president of the Members of the ad hoc Committee of the Indian Social Club Sur.
"The doctor in CMC Vellore has agreed to see the child for an evaluation," Reghunandan added while thanking the members social club who worked along with him to raise money for the treatment.
Without coordinated efforts of all we would not have been able to collect the substantial amount of money, he added .
Vishak's elder brother had died of the same disease since his poverty-stricken parents had lacked the necessary funds to provide advanced medical treatment. "We shelled out our entire savings for Vishak's elder brother. Now, we don't have anything left for the treatment of Vishak. We thank Times of Oman Reader's Club and social workers in Sur, who are helping us," the parents said.
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