Can someone gift her a smartphone? young girl tries to sell her blood to buy smartphone
Mobilenews24x7 Bureau
It is although a shocking incident yet it brings to the fore an amazing mix of need and mis-adventure by a girl from West Bengal. Mobile smartphones have become a parts of life all across and in that race a young girl from W Bengal wanted to sell her blood to buy a smartphone.
However, the hospital authorities came to know about the girl’s intentions and handed her back to her parents.
Imagine the girl had used a relative’s number to book for the smartphone through a shopping app but later realising she does not have the money, she came to such a damaging conclusion to sell her blood to pay for the phone. And she boarded a bus for Balurghat hospital to sell her blood.
“A girl approached us around 10 am. Initially we thought that she had come to take blood as it was a blood bank of the district hospital. But when she told us that she wanted to sell us blood, we were shocked,” said Kanak Kumar Das from the blood bank at the Balurghat district hospital.
According to Das, she had initially told them that she wanted to sell her blood so that she could pay for her brother’s treatment. However, after the officials at the hospital questioned her for a while, she admitted that she wanted money to buy a smartphone which she has already ordered online on her relative’s mobile phone.
She left home on Monday giving the excuse of attending tuitions, but left her bicycle at the bus stand. She boarded a bus from Tapan to reach the district headquarters in Balurghat, around 30 km away, and headed straight to the hospital.
“I was not at home when she went out. I am not sure how she got the idea that she could sell blood to get money,” informed her father. He is a vegetable vendor at a local market and her mother is a homemaker. She also has a younger brother who studies in fourth standard.
Since the girl was a minor, the officials at the blood bank informed the Childline on 1098 and their counsellor Rita Mahato soon reached the hospital.
The girl was counselled before being handed over to her parents with the help of district child welfare committee.
