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Postmaster Donates Entire Salary to Help Save 2-Year-Old Trishika
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CNBC TV18•07-10-2026, 01:41
Postmaster Donates Entire Salary to Help Save 2-Year-Old Trishika
- •Bimal Kumar Sahu, a 58-year-old postmaster from Odisha, donated his entire monthly salary of 26,304 rupees to help two-year-old Trishika.
- •Trishika is suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, a rare genetic disorder requiring a life-saving injection costing approximately 16 crore rupees.
- •Not owning a smartphone or knowing how to use digital wallets, Sahu rode his scooter 150 kilometres to the News18 office in Bhubaneswar to hand over the money in person.
- •Trishika's family has been using crowdfunding to raise money for her treatment, having gathered around 6 crore rupees so far with 10 crore rupees still needed.
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Bimal Kumar Sahu watched a news report about Trishika on television and rode his scooter 150 kilometres to the News18 office in Bhubaneswar to hand over his entire monthly salary of ₹26,304 to her family.
Trishika is a two-year-old girl suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 2, a rare and life-threatening genetic neuromuscular disorder. Doctors recommended a single-dose gene therapy called Zolgensma, which costs approximately ₹16 crore.
Bimal Kumar Sahu is around 58 years old and works as the postmaster of the Pingua Sub-Post Office in Gandia block of Dhenkanal district, just days away from his retirement.
