LD26190: Burden piled on the shoulders of a mother raising a seriously ill child
A mother in Ninh Binh has been burdened with raising two children for many years, one of whom has congenital heart disease, brain atrophy, and heavy debts.
Ms. Pham Thi Quynh (resident of Xuan Duong village, Xuan Truong commune, Ninh Binh province) has gone through more than a decade of upheaval when raising two young children alone, in which her daughter suffers from congenital heart disease and brain atrophy, and has to be treated continuously at the hospital.
The years of fighting illness of her child caused the family to fall into debt, and life became increasingly deadlocked.
The first pain came to Ms. Quynh in 2013. Her first son, baby Dang Hoang Gia, unfortunately contracted measles when he was only 3 months old. The virus caused serious damage to the lungs, causing the baby to have respiratory failure and not survive. Losing her child when she was too young became a major shock for the young mother.
Two years later, she gave birth to her daughter Dang Dieu Linh. When the baby was only 3 months old, the family continued to receive bad news when doctors diagnosed Linh with stage IV congenital heart disease.
She regularly has to be treated at the National Children's Hospital (Hanoi). Due to her too weak physical condition, Linh only qualified for heart valve replacement surgery at the end of 2015.
It seemed that the successful surgery would open up new hope, but not long after, Ms. Quynh received more news that her child had brain atrophy.
Since then, baby Linh has entered a long rehabilitation journey. Despite many years of persistent treatment, her health has only improved somewhat.
Currently, Linh is still aware of everything around her but cannot speak, mainly communicating with relatives with gestures and eyes.
In 2020, after giving birth to her third daughter, difficult life made family conflicts increasingly serious. Ms. Quynh brought her two daughters to rely on her biological parents and from then on took care of the children alone.
To treat her child's illness, for many years she has regularly taken Linh from her rented room to the National Children's Hospital for rehabilitation.
Each training session costs about 200,000 VND, not including rent of about 4.5 million VND per month along with living expenses and travel expenses. Without stable jobs, she takes on all kinds of jobs, doing whatever anyone hires to earn extra income to cover treatment costs.
At the beginning of 2024, Linh continued to undergo surgery to replace the pulmonary artery valve and replace the heart valve. However, the re-examination results in early July 2026 showed that her heart valve was severely dilated, with the risk of having to replace the valve for the third time.
Currently, Linh's health is not sufficient for surgery, so she still has to be treated at the Department of Rehabilitation, waiting for her physical condition to stabilize before intervening.
Many years of treating her child has caused Ms. Quynh's family to fall into debt. Currently, she still has a loan of about 180 million VND from the bank and relatives that cannot be paid.
Difficulties are compounded when her biological parents are both farmers, and the economy is tight. Her mother - Ms. Le Thi Sen (born 1969) - was recently diagnosed with liver cancer on the background of cirrhosis. To have money for treatment, the family continued to borrow more than 200 million VND. To date, all resources have almost run out.
Mr. Pham Van Dang - Head of Xuan Duong village - said that Ms. Pham Thi Quynh's family living in the locality is in particularly difficult circumstances.
Her daughter has congenital heart disease and needs regular treatment, while her mother has just been diagnosed with liver cancer.
The family circumstances really need the joint support of philanthropists to have more conditions to continue treatment, helping Dieu Linh have the opportunity to overcome the difficult period ahead.
All help for life situation LD26190 of Ms. Pham Thi Quynh's family, please send to Tam Long Vang Charity Social Fund - 51 Hang Bo, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi. Account number (STK) 113000000758 at VietinBank Hoan Kiem Branch, Hanoi; Account number: 0021000303088 - at Vietcombank Hanoi Branch; Account number: 12410001122556 - at BIDV Hoan Kiem Branch.
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