Sana All Set For Discharge

Afternoon Voice

Mumbai:- Sana Shakeel Ahmed an 18 year old girl who was admitted to JJ hospital since a year back is all set to discharge. Sana Ansari a girl who became a victim of alleged fights and favoritism amongst her teachers and was forced to drink acid allegedly by her teacher of Madrassa Qulyatul Tahirat located in Malegaon. When Sana was brought to JJ hospital in July 2010 was in a worst condition where she was not able to swallow her own saliva as her esophagus, throat, toungue as well as stomach was completely burned. But after several major surgeries conducted by Shivaji Mane an Honorouray Paedriatic Surgeon of JJ, she is all set to leave the hospital within 10 days.

Saira Bano a widow of Shakeel Ahmed Ansari and Sana's mother couldn’t imagine such thing would have happened to her daughter soon after the death of her husband. As Saira Bano said “we were informed about Sana’s condition by her fellow classmates from her hostel, but everyone in our community has stopped to take action against her teachers” also she said that “their school teachers spread the rumor that Sana has consumed Acid because of her father’s death”.

For staying since last 9 months in JJ hospital, when Sana was brought to the hospital her esophagus was completely burnt and was kept on liquid diet for 6 months due to which she also lost her weight to 20 kg informed Dr Adarsh Hegde a pediatric surgeon. Moreover the muscular movement, immunity level, proteins level all was low in the first five months of pre-operative procedure. Due to which the Dr’s of JJ hospital were worried to perform the surgery. Whether Sana was able to resist more pain or not was a big question raised in front of the pediatric team of the hospital. “The biggest challenge was to remove the stomach and esophagus and reconstruct esophagus with large intestine” said Dr Nitin Bhende also he added that “cases such as these are not read in any books we have to operate and we learnt while operating that her esophagus was completely burnt and her stomach too”. After which the team of Dr’s remove the esophagus and stomach and joined her neck with a part of large intestine to the abdomen after which the food can easily pass through her throat.

Sana’s mother Saira Bano is unknown to Mumbai and there is no one in her family who can earn them a living. She is working as a mate in 3 houses at Nagpada after which she can take care of her family. Saira Bano said to AV that “Mumbaikars have helped us a lot by providing me work and charity for my daughter health” also she said “the main culprit Rashida Abdur Rehman (her teacher) in this case have received Anticipatory Bail by High Court but we still believe in our Judiciary system we will be given justice in this world or hereafter”