Meet Jaikala, a 24-year old mother from Nepal that has recently given birth to a baby girl. “Her family tends to the farm to make a living and her husband is a seasonal migrant to India who works as a labourer,” says our medical partner, Possible.
Jaikala’s ring finger has been swelling, worsened by a local remedy that has dried her finger to the bones and turned the skin “charcoal black,” says Possible. This has caused Jaikala immense pain as well as a burning sensation in her finger.
Jaikala got treatment too late to save the finger, and she now needs the finger amputated. “Once her finger is amputated, Jaikala will have healthy skin over it. Because it’s her ring finger in the left hand, she can do most of her activities without feeling pain or burning sensation,” says Possible.
$220 will fund the procedure to amputate her finger. This includes costs for medicine as well as the surgical costs required. Jaikala says, “I feel so helpless seeing other people do my work. As soon as my finger heals, I want to jump to work immediately.”