Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)

Puttur, May 11: Vijeth (20), an engineering student, had written sometime back to the Prime Minister, seeking financial help for his treatment. He was suffering from life threatening blood-related ailment.

A sum of three lac rupees has now been sanctioned by the office of the Prime Minister to Vijeth. But the help came too late for him, as he succumbed to the disease on Monday.

Vijeth, only son of Ganesh Acharya from Nekkilady, was a student of Vivekananda Engineering College Puttur. Even after falling victim to a deadly disease, he wanted to pursue his engineering course to be able to help his family. As the disease he suffered from needed bone marrow transplant, needing a sum of over Rs 30 lac, Vijeth had approached the Prime Minister's office for help.

A sum of three lac rupees was sanctioned by the said office to him on April 29, and information about this was conveyed to the parents of Vijeth and Narayana Hrudayalaya Bengaluru. The letter reached the family on May 9 but Vijeth had breathed his last before that, on May 6.

Daijiworld had published a request to its readers to help Vijeth in December last and readers had responded.