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With remarkable insight into the human condition, join 13 year old Mahendra Ahirwar who suffers from a rare condition that makes his head hang from his body in a 180 degree angle. Unable to stand or walk by himself, Mahendra sees the world upside down and longs to be able to see things as his brothers and sisters do.
Having visited many doctors, his parents were beginning to lose hope, despairing that death could be “the only treatment left to end his misery”. But the tide turned when the family met UK trained spinal surgeon, Dr Rajagopalan Krishnan, who is now planning life-changing surgery that will allow Mahendra to hold his head upright for the first time.
Financial help, too, came from an extraordinary place - half way round the world; from Liverpool in the UK where school careers co-ordinator Julie Jones who read about Mahendra’s plight in the newspapers orchestrated a crowdfunding website, raising over £12,000 to pay for Mahendra’s operation.