Tamara Groznaya, photo from ren-tv.com
Moscow pensioner offers operation to deaf child
Published 09 April, 2009, 01:52
Tamara Groznaya from Moscow has signed away her quota for an expensive operation to improve her hearing to a 9-year-old girl from a Russian country town of Ussuriysk.
The woman has already filled out a request to allow the girl to have her operation at the Health and Social Development Minister.
“I do not have a shadow of a doubt about passing this quota to her,” said Tamara, “I cannot get this girl out of my head.”
To be more persuasive, the pensioner even compared herself to an old fur coat.
“My health is like an old fur coat worn with holes. You can mend it here and there but it would be pitted anyway. I see no need in doing so while the girl is just starting to live.”
Tamara Groznaya saw the story about two deaf sisters from Ussuriysk on TV. She learned that a special federal programme covered the expenses for just one sister – 5-year-old Natasha. Her 9-year-old sister, Nastya, could not have a microchip implanting operation because, as the programme states, “the hearing restoration could become a major risk of an intense shock for children with congenital deafness over 5-years-old”.
The mother of Nastya and Natasha could not afford the 1 million ruble operation (about $33,000) and even began a successful fund raising campaign to have her elder daughter cured.
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