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A Small Step.....
#WritcoStoryPrompt37
The severely malnourished child was on the verge of death. I quickly set up an IV to give him much needed nutrition and other supplements.
Hours later when he was stable I turned in anger upon the illiterate parents. " Why are you starving this child? He needs proper food! "
Tears dropped down the broken, skeletal man who stood before me with folded hands. "Look around you, Doctor Sahib, the land is dead. We have no food."
Hearing this i was astonished the man who grow food for others was now facing the scenario of food calamity. This year the monsoon was very less due to which farmers where struggling to grow crops and on top of that the village lands become barren.
The skeletal man spoke again , "We used to grow crop and earn enough to fulfill our basic requirement but this year struck us...
The severely malnourished child was on the verge of death. I quickly set up an IV to give him much needed nutrition and other supplements.
Hours later when he was stable I turned in anger upon the illiterate parents. " Why are you starving this child? He needs proper food! "
Tears dropped down the broken, skeletal man who stood before me with folded hands. "Look around you, Doctor Sahib, the land is dead. We have no food."
Hearing this i was astonished the man who grow food for others was now facing the scenario of food calamity. This year the monsoon was very less due to which farmers where struggling to grow crops and on top of that the village lands become barren.
The skeletal man spoke again , "We used to grow crop and earn enough to fulfill our basic requirement but this year struck us...
