They refuse to give a kidney to their daughter because "she is a baby" | Chronic

Kanchan Kumari, a teenager in the village of Avgil, India's Bihar state, needs a kidney transplant to survive after doctors have diagnosed her kidneys as having stopped functioning.

The girl is 16 years old and is the eldest of five siblings. A few months ago, she became seriously ill and was admitted to several hospitals before her parents decided to take her back to her hometown for not having the money to continue treatment.

In addition, their parents stated that they did not want to give their kidneys to their daughter and that they would not look for other donors.

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"Who will give your kidneys? It's a girl"Replied the father of the child, Ramashray Yadav, to the questions of a local journalist.

The grandfather of the child also ruled out the possibility that Ramashray donate an organ to his daughter, which would imply that she is the sole support of her family and that she could not work with a single kidney.

Besides the difficulties in finding a donor, the transplant operation costs about 500,000 rupees (more than $ 7,000), an amount that the Kumari family can not afford. In addition, doctors do not guarantee that the adolescent will survive the intervention.