9-year-old Jaskirat Singh needs humanitarian support

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 5: Nine-year-old Jaskirant Singh is suffering from an incurable and life threatening disease Primary Immune Deficiency Disorder (typically Bruton’s Hypogammaglobulinemia).
Son of Tarvinder Singh of Miran Sahib seeks help from people to meet out the treatment cost, as the family is not in a condition to bear the expenses.
Primary Immune Deficiency Disorder is a mal-condition in a body which restricts the immune system buildings cells of a body, resulting into the gradual degeneration of one’s body which if not treated timely may also cause death. It is totally incurable in nature but if provided with monthly doses of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), a patient can have a good long term prognosis.
Talvinder Singh, father of the ailing child said that his son Jaskirant Singh is undergoing treatment for “Primary Immune Deficiency Disorder” at PGI Chandigarh since October 2009.
He said that injection is given to my child on monthly basis and it costs hefty amount of Rs 25,000 and sometimes above it, which the family cannot bear due to unstable source of income.
With each pass day, the worry towards my ward is also amounting as my finances are dwindling, Singh added.
He requested civil society, social organization, NGOs and other community based organizations to extend their humanitarian support by donating generously so that a child, who is in his juvenile days, could feel the warmth of his parental love, joviality and merriment of his innocence and playfulness of his unexplored self.
To save life of Jaskirant Singh, the desirous persons can make donations in A/c No 1460000101147603, PNB Bank, Shastri Nagar, Jammu.