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After 20
years in Saudi, Indian unable to save for girls’ treatment
Thursday March 03, 2011 08:49:23 AM,
Badea Abu Al-Naja
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Makkah: An elderly Indian man says
after working in Saudi Arabia for more than 20 years he was unable
to save SR30,000 needed to treat his two hearing-impaired
daughters.
Puthiya Purayil Koya, 58, from Calicut, Kerala, came to the
Kingdom hoping to raise money to treat his eldest daughter after
doctors suggested that surgery could cure her hearing impairment.
“When my eldest daughter was born doctors said she needed an
operation to correct her hearing problem,” Koya said, adding that
he decided to come to Saudi Arabia for work in order to raise the
money.
“After five years, his second daughter was born with similar
problems. Now I have two daughters who need to be operated on,” he
said.
Koya said he spent his young years trying to save the money
without any success. “After many years of hard labor it became
certain that this was an impossible mission. My salary never went
beyond SR900,” he said. “I have become desperate. What is the use
of the long years I spent away from home if I cannot raise the
money to save my own flesh and blood?”
Koya said he started weighing his options to go back and be with
his family or to stay here and try to make the needed amount.
“I am not young any more. If I go back home I will not find work
and will not be able to feed my family. If I stay here, I will be
away from my family in my old age and I will never be able to make
the required money. I decided to leave the matter of money and
operations in the hands of God and remain in the Kingdom to send
what little I can to my family,” he said.
Koya appealed to all those with “soft hearts” to help him and put
an end to his misery.
(Arab News)
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