Coimbatore girl with SMA gets ₹ 16-crore life-saving drug in lottery draw
The Hindu
One year and 18 days old Zuha Zainab from Coimbatore received an injection at a hospital in New Delhi on Saturday which her parents barely thought they could arrange for her. But luck favoured the cou
One year and 18 days old Zuha Zainab from Coimbatore received an injection at a hospital in New Delhi on Saturday which her parents barely thought they could arrange for her. But luck favoured the couple and the kid. Baby Zainab was among the four children suffering from rare genetic disorder spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) for which a gene therapy that costs over ₹ 16 crore was administered free of cost at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, on Saturday.With the Prajwal Revanna sexual abuse case taking new twists every day, JD(S) State president and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Monday appealed to the Hassan MP, who is his nephew, to return and subject himself to the legal process. This is the first time that such an appeal has been made by the family.
Amidst continuing protest over the murder of Anjali Ambiger in Hubballi, Home Minister G. Parameshwara, who visited the victim’s family on Monday, announced in a press conference that like the Neha Hiremath case, this too would be handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for inquiry.