Dear readers please do pray for us, for your young soldiers fighting the good fight in the midst of AIDS, witchcrafts and uncertainties.
We also request you to remember our people in your prayer, a girl child like Eunice Moonga, aged 2 years, who was brought to our hospital today (30/05/08) with severe malnutrition and anaemia. She died, in my hand while examining her, of this easily preventable and curable ailment. We could have saved her if they reach the hospital on time. But it’s not that they don’t want to reach early. They tried, but it took them 7 long hours from their place to the hospital using the only means of transport which is at their disposal – they walk on foot!! It does not end here. On arrival she was still alive, at least breathing with much effort. On the journey home her mother alone has to carry (paw haw – just like a Mizo mother carry her child) her dead baby home. They may reach home in the middle of the night after another 7 hours journey on foot.
We also request you to remember our people in your prayer, a girl child like Eunice Moonga, aged 2 years, who was brought to our hospital today (30/05/08) with severe malnutrition and anaemia. She died, in my hand while examining her, of this easily preventable and curable ailment. We could have saved her if they reach the hospital on time. But it’s not that they don’t want to reach early. They tried, but it took them 7 long hours from their place to the hospital using the only means of transport which is at their disposal – they walk on foot!! It does not end here. On arrival she was still alive, at least breathing with much effort. On the journey home her mother alone has to carry (paw haw – just like a Mizo mother carry her child) her dead baby home. They may reach home in the middle of the night after another 7 hours journey on foot.
This and other more awful stories are daily happenings here in Chikankata. You can weep many times out of compassion and sometimes of knowing that you can no more do anything even if you want to. But God is with us and our people. We are marching on.
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