Daijiworld News Network [With input from Valerian Aranha Dubai]
Dubai, Jun 4: She will be 24 on June 13. A young woman yet to see her family life, Nirmala is struggling in a life-and-death situation in Wecare Hospital Dubai. For Nirmala Sequeira, hailing from Mangalore and married hardly six months ago, life perhaps will never be the same again.
On May 5, Nirmala started complaining about neck and shoulder pain and the condition worsened quickly on May 22 night. She was admitted to Sharjah Zulekha Hospital's intensive care unit. In Zulekha Hospital, doctors found through CT scan an unusual growth in the right side of her chest and multiple lesions in the liver.
On May 23 she was shifted to Welcare Hospital's intensive care unit, Dubai for advanced treatment since the doctors in Sharjah realized that her condition was getting worse. She was operated upon to remove the growth. The extract has been sent for laboratory tests and the reports are awaited, although doctors suspect it to be cancer.
She is the daughter of John Sequeira (Maradka, Kateel) and Lenny Teacher (HM in Mundkur School), currently residing in Naniltar, Belman.
Jeevan Sequeira, her husband, could not take this shock. When daijiworld.com contacted him, he could not control his emotions and burst into tears. The couple had many plans for the future. An IT professional Jeevan, with his wife had decided to migrate USA in the month of July 2006.
"I just can't reconcile to this. My happiness has been taken away…", he explained without being able to speak any further.
Immediatley after marriage, Jeevan was sent to USA for the training by his company in Hyderabad. During this time, Nirmala came to Dubai to stay with her father in 1998. Since then she has been here in Dubai.
Nirmala has been with her father ever since she completed her SSLC. Her father has his own small business of printing supplies.
John Sequeira says that he has already exhausted his resources. He says he already the hospital bills have reached Dhs 90,000 on her treatment, and currently the daily average expenses are around Dhs 10,000 which he finds difficult to absorb. Therefore he has requested all kind-hearted people to support him.
"Nirmala was a happy girl since childhood, full of life. But God's plans are different for her. I cannot see her in this state and I do not want her to die. Please help us to save her life. I am sure with the help from people she will live long," says John Sequeira, her father, with deep emotion, while speaking to daijiworld.com correspondent.
Nirmala has been diagnosed with malignant anaplastic tumour, respiratory failure and renal failure and is on ventilator in Welcare Hospital ICU since May 28, 2006. She is in a critical condition and doctors are still awaiting the reports of type of cancer.
For further details, you may contact:
John Sequeira (Father) 00971-050-6547281
Jeevan Sequeira (Husband) 00971-50-3432969
Residence: 00971-6-5640712
Bank details: Bank of Baroda, Bur Dubai branch account no. 0001-100957106