Word: farrukhabad
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...every few months while he searches hospital by hospital for some relief, but dragging his uninsured family into debt when they should be benefiting from India's economic boom. Together, Abhishek's parents - his mother Sunita is a clerk in a local government office in the northern city of Farrukhabad, his father Sunil works in a small clothes shop - make just under $200 a month, no fortune but enough to buy a small TV for their modest home. They would have bought a motorbike too, Sunil says, perhaps even a patch of land somewhere, were it were...
...Standing in the crowded entrance hall in the outpatients department of New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), one of India's best public hospitals, Sunil explains that because there are no decent public hospitals in Farrukhabad, he and his wife take Abhishek to New Delhi about three times a year for checkups and to try to get him the operation he needs. Last year, after years bouncing between hospitals and clinics, their son got an appointment to have the vital tests he needs before an operation. The family scraped together the $120 fee and traveled...
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