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- July 22, 2011
- IANS
- Mumbai / DC.
Left partially paralysed in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, NSG commando P.V. Manesh is now glad that the Kerala government is ready to pay the cost of his ayurveda treatment with which he hopes to be up and about.
"I am glad that the cost of my treatment is finally approved. I thank my seniors who helped me with it," Manesh said over phone from his residence in Azhikode in Kerala's Kannur district. Earlier, there was some delay in the approval.
Now rehabilitated in his parent force Indian Army's Madras Regiment as a Naik, Manesh declined to reveal details about the approval, the sanctioning authority and from which date the cost will be reimbursed.
Manesh, 35, had shot dead one of the 10 terrorists during the 26/11 attacks. He was then hit in the head by a grenade splinter when he was attempting to save the hostages in the Oberoi Trident Hotel at Nariman Point in south Mumbai.
Ayurveda was his last hope to treat and cure the right side of his body that was paralysed, due to the grenade attack injuries, he said.
The armyman, who travels by train every fortnight to a hospital 300 km away in Ottapalam's Karuna Hospital in Palakkad district for treatment, said it costs Rs.2,000 every time - or Rs.4,000 per month over two sessions.
"The doctors there don't charge for consultation but I have to spend on travel and medicines. But I have complete faith in ayurveda and feel it has improved my condition," he said.
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