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Article: Caring for children with rheumatism related heart diseases.
- Article from:
- The New Nation (Dhaka, India)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2009
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Dhaka, May 28 -- Sagar, a 25-year-old honours final year student of Sociology Department of Rajshahi University, often keeps indoor and avoids friends when they roam around the campus. He even skips important classes when he feels uncomfortable.
"My friends roam around the campus all day long, but I cannot because I have been suffering from rheumatic fever since my childhood" says Sagar with tears in his easy.
Sagar did not know about it until 2000 when a doctor, after seeing his X-ray report, had said that the left part of his heart got larger than the right one. He has remained untreated so long as his father could not afford the expensive treatment. ...