Anastasia Arnons Rens from Indonesia, a woman in Indonesia suffers from’elephantiasis’ in which her left leg grows like an elephant leg. Online fundraising kitabisa site capture
An Indonesian woman started raising money for surgery because she suffered from’elephantiasis’ (epithelial disease), which causes her leg to enlarge like an elephant’s leg. The disease is getting bigger and bigger because there is no money to get treatment at a bigger hospital.
According to local media such as Tribune News on the 18th, Anastasia Arnons Lence, 22, who lives in Sumba Island in Dongnu Saenggara Province, has been getting bigger since childhood, revealing her left leg, which is now changing like the’elephant leg’, and giving a helping hand. I saved it.
In the meantime, I moved with crutches, but now it is difficult to walk even with crutches.
Anastasia suffers from epithelial disease. It is a disease in which the lymphatic vessels or veins around the tissues become hard and thick like elephant skin. It mainly affects the legs.
In 2014, Anastasia visited a local hospital in the city. However, he was advised to seek treatment in a larger hospital. Since then, Anastasia has been holding on with painkillers whenever his leg is more swollen and sore.
Anastasia’s parents, who grow and sell vegetables in the village, are unable to treat their daughter due to insufficient hospital expenses. I kept writing letters asking for help from the local government, but it was a letter without a reply.
Anastasia, who had no way of doing things, posted a post on the local online fundraising site’kitabisa’ that he was raising Rupiah 100 million (7,700,000 won) for treatment with a picture in the spirit of catching straw.
Epithelial disease is a disease that occurs mainly in tropical regions. Children with epithelial disease are often unable to attend school and even socialize. At least 4 million people suffer in the world.
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