Wary of costly treatment, Pellet-hit boy’s family ‘Disowns’ him

With his right eye hit by pellets, Bilal Ahmad of Shopian walks towards the CT scan room of SMHS hospital. He asks his friend to call his parents who hurriedly dials the phone number. As the friend informs Bilal’s parents about his injury, they refuse to come, saying, “Let him die”. Bilal is disowned by his family as they don’t have money to spend on his treatment. “They are extremely poor people and his family cannot afford to take care of him, that’s the reason why they are disowning him,”…

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