Viagra keeps a little girl alive
DAILY doses of impotency drug Viagra are keeping a four-year-old girl alive.
She suffers from idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare disease which makes it difficult for her to breathe. She was diagnosed with the disease in April and since then has had to take Viagra every day to dilate her blood vessels and reduce pressure on her lungs.
She cannot attend kindergarten like other children and has to take Viagra and breathe oxygen to stay alive, the Fujian-based Southeast Express reported yesterday.
“When the disease was diagnosed, I applied for a long holiday so that I can help her,” her father Liu Zhangfeng, who works as a teacher, was quoted as saying.
The girl’s parents were told adults had at most three years to live after contracting the disease, children even less time.
The monthly income of the family is reportedly less than 2,000 yuan (US$294) and most of this comes from the mother who sells clothes at night from a street stall.
A packet of Viagra costs the family 495 yuan and only lasts 10 days. Some new pills prescribed for the girl cost 250 yuan a day, the father said, but they had liver-damaging side effects.
At 5pm every day before her mother Zhou Qiaoli starts for work, the “considerate” girl reportedly puts Zhou’s shoes by the door. She collects empty bottles and waste paper to raise money.
She is a “bright child” who can recognize the national flags of several countries and paints and sings at home. She has never cried over her treatment, the paper said, but burst into tears when told she could no longer go to kindergarten.
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