GIRL WITH SWOLLEN HEAD(inasababishwa na nn doctors mtusaidie!!

[h=2]JIRANIA KHOLA, India — A desperate Indian father whose young child suffers from a condition that caused her head to swell up to an enormous size said Saturday he is praying for a "miracle" to save her life.[/h] [h=2]Eighteen-month-old Roona Begum was diagnosed with hydrocephalus, in which cerebrospinal fluid builds up in the brain, just weeks after her birth in a government-run hospital in remote Tripura state in northeast India.[/h] [h=2]The potentially fatal illness has caused Roona's head to swell to a circumference of 91-centimetres (36-inches), putting pressure on her brain.[/h] [h=2]Her father, Abdul Rahman, 18, who lives in a mud hut with his family in the village of Jirania Khola, told AFP he prays for "a miracle" that will save his only child.[/h] [h=2]"Day by day, I saw her head growing too big after she was born," said the illiterate labourer who works in a brick-making factory.[/h] [h=2]Doctors told him to go to a specialist hospital in a big city such as Kolkata in eastern India to get medical help but Rahman, who earns 150 rupees ($2.75) a day working in the brick plant, said he does not have the money to take her.[/h] [h=2]"It's very difficult to watch her in pain. I pray several times a day for a miracle -- for something to make my child better," he said.[/h] [h=2]The US government's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke estimates about one in every 500 children suffers from hydrocephalus.[/h] [h=2]The most common treatment involves the surgical insertion of a shunt system to drain cerebrospinal fluid away from the brain and towards another part of the body where it can be easily absorbed into the bloodstream.[/h]
[h=2]Cases like Roona's, where the head has doubled in size in a relatively short span of time, are extremely rare, according to leading Indian neurosurgeon Sandeep Vaishya.[/h] [h=2]"It's difficult to assess the situation without seeing the patient, but a surgery, even at this late stage, would give her brain the best chance it has to grow and develop normally," Vaishya told AFP.[/h] [h=2]Vaishya, who is the head of neurosurgery at the privately run Fortis flagship hospital in Gurgaon, a satellite city of the national capital Delhi, said that surgeries to treat hydrocephalus cases are "not particularly risky".[/h] [h=2]Although the cost differs from case to case, he estimated that a complex surgery like this one would cost about 125,000 rupees ($2,300) and require a three-day hospital stay.[/h] [h=2]Roona now is confined to her bed and unable to move her head but she is a playful child, quick to smile and giggle and is able to move her limbs, according to her father.[/h] [h=2]She has outlived an initial prognosis by doctors that she would survive only two months.[/h] [h=2]But her mother, Fatema Khatun, 25, says the little girl's health is getting worse and that she urgently needs help.[/h] [h=2]"She is deteriorating. She eats less and less, vomits often and I can see that she is getting thinner," Khatun told AFP.[/h]
source:AFP & Bapromas.blogspot.com.

I pray for her too!!