The Children We Could Save | Dr. Radhika Batra

A mother once begged me to let her four-year-old daughter die. I was working as a pediatrician in a busy government hospital, used to the cries, the chaos, and the constant emergencies, but never this. Please, doctor, she said, give us some comfort, but let her die.I froze. How could any mother possibly say that. How could any mother lose hope so completely.And then I saw Remy, a severely malnourished little girl, terrified, screaming in frustration, hitting her mother, pulling her hair. Remy was completely ...