Team News Riveting
New Delhi, March 2
Setting an example of humanity and inspiration, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu of Amritsar in Punjab donated the organ of his 40-day-old daughter Ababat Kaur.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned about the noble initiative of the Sukhbir Singh’s family while addressing the 99th Episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday. “Friends, I cherished a desire for a long time to know the Mann Ki Baat of people who do such noble deeds and share it with the countrymen as well. So today in Mann Ki Baat a lovely daughter, a father of a beautiful angel and her mother are going to join us. The father’s name is Sukhbir Singh Sandhu ji and the mother’s name is Supreet Kaur ji…this family resides in Amritsar, Punjab. After many a prayer, they were blessed with a very beautiful girl child…a doll like daughter. The people of the household lovingly named her Ababat Kaur. The connotation of Ababat is related to the service of others…it is related to ameliorating the sufferings of others. When she was only thirty-nine days old, she left this world. But Sukhbir Singh Sandhu ji and his wife Supreet Kaur ji, their family took a very inspiring decision. And the decision was…Organ Donation of a daughter who was thirty-nine days only,” Modi said.
He expressed his gratitude to the entire family of Sukhbir Singh Sandhu. He talked to the couple stating that since the matter pertaining to Ababat is so inspiring, he should listen to it straight from them.
Sukhbir told the Prime Minister that God had given them a very beautiful child, a very lovely doll had arrived into our house. As soon as she was born, they came to know that she has a bunch of nerves in her brain due to which the size of her heart was getting bigger. “So we were taken aback that the child was healthy…so beautiful and yet born with such a big problem! So, for the first 24 days the child was completely normal,” Sukhbir said.
Suddenly her heart stopped working completely, so the family quickly took her to the hospital, where the doctors revived her, but it took time to understand what was wrong with her… such a big problem; a small child and a sudden heart attack. “So, we took her to PGI Chandigarh for treatment. There the child fought bravely during the treatment. But the disease was such that its treatment was not possible at such a tender age. The doctors tried a lot to revive her, if the child were to approach the six-month mark, then one could have thought of operating on her,” he said.
But God had something else in mind, when she was only 39 days old, the doctor said that she had suffered a heart attack again, now there was very little hope left. “So, we both husband and wife weepingly came to the decision that we had seen her fighting bravely again and again as if she would go away now but then she was reviving, so we felt that this child had some purpose in coming here. So when they expressed utter helplessness, both of us decided… why not donate the organs of this child. Maybe there would be light in someone else’s life! Then we contacted the administrative block of PGI and they guided us that only kidneys of such a small child can be taken. The almighty gave us the courage, it is the philosophy of Guru Nanak Saheb that guided us in this decision,” he added.
The Prime Minister also talked to Supreet Kaur and said Your daughter has become an immortal traveler of the immortal saga of humanity.
