Vadodara: Six months ago, the 11-year-old Patel Aasim was rushed to the state-run SSG hospital, almost not walking and almost a coma, paralyzed with high-grade fever, continuous seizure and lost almost all of its senses.
For four and a half months, Aasim, a Godhra resident, remains connected to a life support system.
But the miracle happened and the Tweenager against dashing until he could start walking again, even with a walking aids, for now.
It all started when Aasim began suffering from encephalomyelitis, neurological disorders.
His muscles lose the power to move, diaphragms and breathing muscles very weak so that the minor cannot breathe alone.
The middle-class family he hid with Vasim Patel’s father, a wooden trading, a mess after the first time born suddenly fell ill last year.
While the boy is under the ventilator, there are other complications – pneumonia, urinal infections and fungal infections – which bring havoc on a small frame.
He was under treatment continuously by the doctor and was treated by his father and grandmother Ajraben, while his mother took care of his sister.
“We carry all kinds of examinations including cerebrospinal fluid checks, viral titers, blood tests, MRI, Eegec investigations and finally diagnosed with encephalomyelitis, brain inflammation and spinal cord.
We still don’t know what triggered,” said Dr.
Sheila Aiyer, head of the department Pediatrics.
For doctors and nurses in the Pediatric Department of the biggest government hospital in the middle of Gujarat, this does not lack a miracle.
“We continue to treat it with drugs.
After a prolonged neurological morbidity and prolonged ventilator needs, we see it recovering.
It is the first for many of us,” Dr.
Aiyer said.
The doctor does a tracheostomy (a hole made on the front of the neck to help one breath) to help Aasim, which will be closed within a week now.
“When his neurological recovery began, from his ventilator gradually weaning.
After he could breathe spontaneously, he shifted to ward off the trigger,” said Dr.
Aiyer.
“Fortunately, he had not lost his memory, he responded to the question, identified family members.
His speech will also return,” said the doctor, added that Aasim care at a public hospital was being carried out for free.
Father grateful, Vasim thanked not only hospital staff to help his son recover, but also for the fact that prolonged treatment such as ventilator support would cost at least half of the crore to the family.
“Before we took him to the SSG hospital, my son was under the ventilator at a private hospital for 10 days to the 12 lakh medical bill,” Vasim told Toi.