AGRA: Unable for days to withdraw money from her account for her ailing father's medicines, a 25-year-old woman from Agra has tweeted to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and UP chief minister
Akhilesh Yadav for help, saying she cannot stand in serpentine bank queues, leaving her cancer-stricken dad alone at home.
Juhi Prakash, whose father Nitya Prakash, 52, was diagnosed with oral cancer, said she is already battling financial crisis for the past three months, but unending queues at banks following demonetisation have made it virtually impossible for her to withdraw money to buy medicines."I cannot leave my ailing father at home and stand for hours in queues", she told TOI. "I am the only one in the family taking care of my sick father. My mother passed away three years back."
Juhi said though she has two brothers one is very sick and is undergoing treatment at an ashram in Haridwar. The other is working with a private firm. "But he has to work as we need his salary to run the house. My mother, too, died due to cancer and I don't want to lose my father." She said her father was in the shoe business and was doing very well. However, things changed after her mother was diagnosed with cancer and a lot of money was spent on her treatment.
"We were reduced to zero balance account holders," Juhi said, adding that her father's savings were in his account but she was unable to withdraw money from it. She said though she didn't have enough money for her father's surgery, they can afford medicines worth Rs 6,000-7,000 per month.
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