Friday, Jan 28, 2022 08:15 [IST]
Last Update: Friday, Jan 28, 2022 02:35 [IST]
GANGTOK,: A Nepal lady hospitalized at new STNM Hospital here since January 16 without any guardians has been properly identified and her family members traced by International Human Rights Council (IHRC) Sikkim unit.
The lady, whose real name is Laxmi Pariyar but known here as Soni Thapa, hails from Daldalay near Narayan Ghat, Nepal. She was out of touch with her family since 2012 and was working in Ranipool here.
Laxmi was admitted to new STNM Hospital on January 16 with health disorders. She was found Covid positive besides suffering from brain tumour. She has recovered from the contagion and is under treatment for brain tumour. Her condition has marginally improved but she needs to undergo a long treatment.
IHRC Sikkim unit member Jawla Gupta, who operates a shop at Ranipool, took the initiative to take care of the hospitalised patient and extending all possible help from his end.
In between, her plight was shared by SIKKIM EXPRESS in its social media platforms appealing her family members in Nepal to come forward. The post was widely shared and also drew the attention of IHRC Sikkim unit.
IHRC Sikkim director Robin Rai said the unit started tracing out the family members of Laxmi and after persistent efforts, finally managed to get in touch with them at Nepal. Two cousin brothers reached Gangtok on January 26 with the IHRC Sikkim facilitating their RTPCR test at Siliguri.
Though Laxmi has been reunited with her family members, she is facing a huge challenge to meet the expenses for her medical treatment.
“The cost of treatment is very high considering the time taken. We would like to appeal, request the State government to extend possible help, assistant in treating her. Further we also request all organizations and individuals in Sikkim and Nepal to extend help to the needy patient,” said Rai.
The two cousins – Sanju Kumar Pariyar and Sadar Darji – said they had seen the photo of Laxmi in SIKKIM EXPRESS social media page but were not confident that it was their missing cousin. We are able to confirm it when her full picture was shared by IHRC Sikkim and with their support and coordination, we were able to come to Sikkim to take care of our sister, they said.
The family members have expressed their gratitude towards IHRC, Sikkim chapter along with Government of Sikkim, Jwala Gupta, Priyanka Sah and Yozna Tamang for their selfless and relentless support extended to the ailing patient.
“At the moment, we want her to be fully cured here itself as it is not possible for us to take her back home given her health condition. We have further learnt that her illness is cure able but the time required for treatment is quite long and the expense for medicine is even very high. We appeal the State government, organisations and people in Sikkim and Nepal and also the Nepali speaking community spread across the world to extend support for her treatment. Those interested in help our sister can contact IHRC Sikkim chapter,” they said.
