21 December 2018 01:29 am
A family of five children living in Kitulakanda at Radawana are in a predicament because the family’s 35-year-old bread winner D.K. Kumarsinghe (35) is seriously ill with intestinal cancer.
The children’s mother, Wasantha Kumari said they had been struggling for survival for more than three years from the time her husband fell ill. The eldest in the family is an 18-year-old girl who left school recently and the others are aged 15, 10 and 8 with the youngest being a four-year-old girl.
“My husband maintained the family with the meagre income he earned as a coconut plucker and a manual labourer in the area. He developed a cancer in his anus and underwent a serious of surgical operations but without a permanent cure. Doctors in the Watupitiwala and Gampaha General Hospitals who examined him found his kidneys were badly affected. Despite his illness he continued to work because of economic constraints faced by the family particularly the children’s schooling.
She requested the public and civil society organizations to help provide treatment to her husband and their 10-year-old son and to spend for their schooling which the children urgently need.
The Grama Niladhari of 390/c Kitulkanda division in Radawana has confirmed the sad plight of this family and recommended public relief.