Wife Puts Herself on Sale

A woman put her five-year-old son and herself on sale in India to meet the treatment cost of her husband who has met with an accident, as per one Times of India report.

Harsh Sharma's husband Bhupinder has been lying unconscious in hospital since August 28 when he was hit by a train in the north Indian state of Punjab.

The 34-year-old woman has sold her jewelry and belongings and spent 2,500 U.S. dollars on her husband's treatment.

"I arranged this money somehow. But now doctors say we need three-four lakh rupees (around 10,000 U.S. dollars) more. I don't have any other belongings to sell except for my five-year-old son. I am ready to sell myself too," the Times of India quoted her as saying.

Doctors, however, said they were unsure how long Bhupinder would take to recover fully.

"The patient is improving, but we can't say how much time he would take to recover completely. It may take a month or much more than that," said Ashwani Kumar Chaudhary, his doctor.

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