Family in dire need of support for treatment of accident victim

Durga Prasad Tiwari undergoing treatment at the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) in Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Photo: THT

KATHMANDU: Durga Prasad Tiwari (45), who was severely injured in a road accident in Dhading two years ago, has been fighting for his life at the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Maharajgunj since last week.

After frequent seizures and worsening health condition, Tiwari was admitted to MICU after undergoing physiotherapy and rehabilitation at Sahara Physiotherapy Hospital in Basundhara.

Tiwari’s elder daughter Kripa quoted Tiwari’s attending doctor, Bikram Gajurel as saying, “It is a case of traumatic head injury and he is in a critical condition. He also has meningoencephalitis infection. We can say something only after observing him for fifteen days.”

His family is not in a position to afford heavy medical expenses anymore. Tiwari’s wife, Kusum, who is a mother of two daughters, said, “We have nothing left in our disposal to afford his expensive medical treatment. We are relying on donation collected by my daughter’s friends. We are totally bankrupt.”

“I don’t know how I am going to repay my debt which is in excess of Rs 4 million,” Kusum cried as she narrated her plight to THT.

She added, “Officials from Sahara Physiotherapy Hospital have been calling me frequently to clear all medical dues which is more than Rs 200,000. I have no option but to ask them to wait for sometime till I gather some funds.”

“The situation is such that one of my daughters is unable to get transfer and character certificates from her college after graduating from SEE exams being unable to clear the dues,” Kusum lamented.

Tiwari sustained critical head injuries when an ambulance they were travelling on hit a parked truck in Prithvi Highway around 2:00 am on the fateful night of April 26, 2017.

Tiwari along with other relatives were accompanying his father to Kathmandu for treatment. After preliminary treatment in Dhadingbesi, Tiwari was referred to the Trauma Centre where his damaged frontal lobe bone was successfully replaced.

After treatment at the Trauma Centre, Kusum took her husband to various hospitals for treatment including Blue Star Hospital, Teaching Hospital, Sahara, among others.

Kusam further said that the ambulance driver contributed around Rs 1.3 million in Tiwari’s medical treatment. However, he later refrained from bearing the expenses given various excuses.

Since then, every medical expense has been covered by the family alone.

Kusum’s friends raising funds for her father’s treatment at Durbar Marga in Kathmandu, on Monday, April 29, 2019. Photo: Mausam Shah Nepali/THT

According to Priya Tamang, one of Tiwari daughter’s friends who is helping to raise the fund, they have so far collected a sum of Rs 25,750. Out of this, Rs 9,575 has been collected through eSewa transactions while Rs 10,000 was provided by former Miss Nepal Asmi Shrestha.

“In case anyone is willing to extend financial support to the family, they can deposit the money in account no. 109005029110 at Rastriya Banijya Bank,” said Tamang.

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