Mehendi Hassan, a Bangladeshi boy, has the acute skin disease that is effectively turning him to stone. While his face looks normal, the rest of his body is covered in thick, scaly skin making it difficult to walk or touch anything.
His community, and even his grandmother, detest him according to Mehendi’s mother. The boy struggles to wear clothes as even slightest of friction to his skin is excruciating and stays at home all day because his appearance terrifies other children in the village.
Mehendi is Jahanara’s third child and was born a healthy seven pounds in the village of Dona Raninagar in Naogaon district of north Bangladesh. When he was 12 days old his mother – a brick kiln labourer – and father Abul Kalam Azad, a van driver, noticed minor rashes in his body.
They ignored it thinking it was mosquito bites, but soon the rash spread from his heel to abdomen and within three months and his fingers, chest and back began to get covered in thick, scaly skin.
The concerned parents consulted various local doctors, trying all forms of medicines to heal their son, but nothing could control the outbreak. Frustrated and broke, they eventually stopped his treatment.
Abdul kalam Azad, the boys father said,’Eventually, all my savings and earnings were exhausted on his treatment but there was no cure. ‘For last year he has not seen any doctor.’ Physicians believe Mehendi’s case is severe, but are still clueless as what the condition is, what caused it and if it can be cured.
The boy was enrolled to a school but there he was assaulted by both students and teachers. The mother is now pleading government to help her son find a doctor who can treat him and free him from the pain.
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