A Chinese couple who can’t afford live-saving medical treatment for their sick daughter are trying to sell their son on the street to raise money for her chemotherapy.
Meng Xiangyan, 29, said that with certain death awaiting their daughter unless she receives medical treatment, she and her husband were prepared to sell their daughter’s twin brother to a good home so that both would have a chance of life.
According to Dailymail,Pictures show her standing on Weihai Road in Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province, with a placard offering to sell him to the highest bidder.
She said:
‘Up until a year ago we had a wonderful family and we thought we had everything we could need with a wonderful little boy and a wonderful little girl who are twins.
‘But all that changed when my daughter was diagnosed as suffering from leukemia in August of last year and we spent all of our savings and borrowed everything we could from friends and relatives.It still wasn’t enough, and now we are hoping to raise cash from the sale of our son.’
Medical staff say the child is suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia and needs urgent medical treatmentthat includes chemotherapy every 10 days at the Rizhao Municipal Hospital.
The family have sold their apartment and everything in it and are now living in a tiny 10sqm flat close to where the chemotherapy is being carried out.
