{"id":34,"date":"2011-03-05T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-03-28T22:50:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:50:52","slug":"raguram%e2%80%99s-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/archives\/34","title":{"rendered":"Raguram\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35\" title=\"ragu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ragu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ragu.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ragu-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>I am Raguram.  I am 17 years old.  My parents are poor agricultural labourers.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of eight, some patches appeared on my body.  I told my parents.  But due to ignorance, they did not care about it.  I developed an ulcer on the right leg due to walking bare-footed. My parents took me to a private hospital and then to the Government hospital at Palayamkottai.<\/p>\n<p>My ulcer got healed but soon it recurred.  Our neighbour advised me to go to Peikulam.  At his advice, I came to St. Luke\u2019s Leprosarium, and got admitted in the hospital.  I received Multi-Drug Therapy and special treatment for ulcer.<\/p>\n<p>My parents were very much worried about my studies.  The Children\u2019s Home at<br \/>\nSt. Luke\u2019s Leprosarium accepted me as an inmate where I received everything free of cost &#8211; food, clothes, shelter, medicare and education. Among the hostel students, I stood first in my class.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am studying Nursing in the Government Stanley Hospital, at Chennai..  On completion of my Nursing Training, I will go back to serve fellow-patients.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to St.Luke\u2019s Leprosarium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Raguram. I am 17 years old. My parents are poor agricultural labourers. At the age of eight, some patches appeared on my body. I told my parents. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}