A very famous, intelligent and experienced lady gynecologist at Ra Jakot asked the patient's husband, 'Your wife has started labor pains. The sixth month has just ended. It cannot be said that the child who is born will live. And even if he lives…' 'So what, madam?' The laboring wife's husband asked, then added himself: 'The newborn baby will be very pre-mature. Its weight will also be very less. Maybe his important organs like brain, lungs, liver are not developed and even going forward there will be some defect, that's what you are saying, right?' 'Yes, you decide. Are you ready to sacrifice your whole life for this child, for raising him? Ask your wife too.' Madam said. 'I have asked my wife, madam. We are ready.' The husband knew all this because he himself was a doctor. He was a gifted physician. His name is Dr. Lakhani. A dedicated, unassuming, dutiful doctor serving patients in Veraval-Somnath for decades. It has been three decades since the above incident. Dr. Lakhani and his wife Nita had full faith in God. Nita Behn had a son in 1994 after five miscarriages. This was the second twin pregnancy. Two babies' heads pressed together inside the womb, pains flared, entered the labor room, no chance of pulling out for another three months. Then Dr. Madam Mohile asked: 'Are you ready to face the consequences?' The husband and wife said yes. One of the two children died. The other weighed 930 grams. Three decades ago saving such pre-mature and low birth weight babies was not as easy as it is now. Now even if the child is saved, lakhs of rupees will be wasted. Illnesses are cruel, they spare no one. Dr. Lakhani's newborn son stayed in intensive care in Rajkot for six months and survived. In Veraval Dr. It is natural for Lakhani's practice to falter. Financial, physical, and psychological harms destroy well-being. By cutting his income, Dr. Lakhani kept running for his son. The son suffered from cerebral palsy. Due to the stiffening of the muscles of the body, the hands and feet and other joints cannot work properly. Jamnagar Dr. V. H. There was no orthopedic surgeon more gifted than Shah Sahib in the whole of Gujarat. Dr. Shah said, 'Lakhani, this is not an orthopedic case, you have to go to Mumbai for its treatment. There are best doctors in India who are very experienced in treating this disease.' To maintain Veraval's house and practice, to get frequent shocks from Mumbai, to arrange a house for having to stay there for days, to manage food-medicine-doctor's fees, any man gets confused. Dr. When Lakhani was doing post graduation, his beloved guru Dr. V. H. Yagnik Sahib was. Dr. Lakhani met him. Tell everything. Dr. Yagnik Sahib said, 'God gives such a challenge to man. He knows who can love this divyang life more than his own life. Brother, Param Tattva has entrusted you with this soul in the form of this child, if you rehabilitate his body, it will be a favor to God. Understand the worship of God and treat your son.' The son was named 'Param'. A difficult but dear responsibility entrusted by the Supreme Being. A senior surgeon from Mumbai examined Param and said: 'He will have to be plastered after Botox injections. Once it doesn't work. Will have to come again and again.' Moving to Mumbai with three-four-year-old Param, arranging to take care of a one-and-a-half-year-old son, and moving here and there in a big, unfamiliar city like Mumbai, an unstoppable streak began. Param was knocked unconscious three times. Plaster was given thrice. Changes were checked every month for two months. The doctor had made numerous patients walk, but failed in Param's case. Finally Param was given anesthesia to relax the hamstring muscle of his leg without success. Someone advised, 'Take your son to a center that offers Ayurvedic treatments. One such center is running in Mumbai.' Dr. Lakhani took his son there. Stayed in Mumbai for months. An old man who massaged the limbs of the Supreme said one day: 'Sa'ab tum ajib aadmi ho. Hum log thak gaye, tum abhi tak thake nahi? Iska Ilaaj Dakshin Bharat Main Hoga. Tum Bachche Ko Chennai Le Jao.' Dr. Lakhani reached Chennai, forgetting everything, the push, harassment and expenses of six years of Mumbai. There Dr. Sriram was sitting as an angel for him. He said: 'There will be one or two surgeries. I have performed surgery on three such children. First you meet the parents of the three. Then come to me, because all the three operations I have done have failed.' Dr. Lakhani went to the home of children with failed operations. Parents opined: 'Dr. Sriram did not fail, we failed, because we could not do the exercises required after the operation.' Dr. Sriram performed two surgeries on Param. Dr. Lakhani and Nita were renting the house. underwent rigorous physiotherapy. The result was beautiful. Param is now twenty-eight years old, slightly wobbly but can jump again and again. His brain is fresh. Recently he has done MBBS. is done Internship is over. Now he is MD. K is going to study M.S. Eldest son Gaurav MBBS. After that, M.D. (Medicine) currently studying Cardiology in Kolkata. Unexpected help has been received many times in this difficult struggle that lasted for three decades. When Param was undergoing treatment in Mumbai, one day Dr. Lakhani went to look for a house on rent in Vashi area. Tired, went to a canteen to drink tea. There a handsome gentleman extended his hand in front of him, 'Dr. Lakhani? you?' 'Yes, but who are you?' Actually the doctor did not remember. 'I am Mr. P.N. Thackeray. Years ago I worked at Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd. in Veraval. He was working in the company. Then I had a heart attack. You made the correct diagnosis. You also gave good, correct and cheap treatment to my son. Speak, do I deserve any work?' After that for six consecutive years, Dr. When Lakhani went to Mumbai for a few days, Mr. Stayed in Thackeray's bungalow. When the Creator gives calamity, He also sends relief. – Title line: Vakil Akhtar
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