Somnath suffers from the consequences of poliomyelitis, which he contracted as a small child. His legs are practically paralyzed and he can only move by crawling. Somnath is also mentally impaired and therefore dependent on extensive help from his mother. He is the only child in the family. They receive no help from his father.

We care then paid for the mother and son and an accompanying person to travel to Kolkata, where Somnath was examined at the state polio center. The two returned to their home village with a wheelchair and the recommendation that Somnath should receive physiotherapy treatment.

Unfortunately, the physiotherapy paid for by we care was not successful. As the treatment also caused Somnath pain, he bit both the therapist and his mother, so that the treatment had to be discontinued.