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Photos:agony Of A Poor Indian Family Who Gave Birth To Kids With Rare Skin Disea by duketunde: 1:49pm On Feb 02, 2016
A rare skin condition that leaves a brother and sister in India looking like they're in their 80's have left their poor parent baffled and at the same time dejected.

7-year-old, Anjali Kumari, and her 18-months-old brother Keshav Kumar, have wrinkled skin, suffer pain in their joints and swollen faces.
But their parents, Shatrughan Rajak, 40 and wife Rinki Devi, 35, from Ranchi, in Jharkhand, eastern India, and oldest daughter Shilpi, 11, do not suffer from the disease.

While the siblings are teased for their looks and are often stared at on the streets they dream of a cure; but doctors in India believe they suffer from a form of Progeria as well as a disease called Cutis Laxa and claim there is no treatment.

Father Shatrughan, a laundry man earning 4,500 Rupees a month (£45), said: ‘We dream there is a cure for my children.

People in our community call them ‘old’ and it’s heartbreaking. We’ve tried to get help from our local doctors but they have told us our only hope is from overseas.’

After Rinki gave birth to her first daughter Shilpi, who was normal, they were quick to build their family, but when their second daughter Anjali was just six months old she was rushed to hospital with pneumonia.

‘After she recovered from pneumonia the moisture in her body just seemed to dry up and her skin loosened,’ added Shatrughan.

‘We took her back to our doctor at a government hospital but they said there’s no cure for her and her life was in the lord’s hand.

They added they will let me know if there’s a cure but I never heard from them again. Ever since she’s aged very quickly.’
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