Girl loses leg in mishap, but not hope

Sunit Dhawan

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Tribune News Service

Rohtak, May 3

Preeti (19) has underlined the old adage that ‘Where there is a will, there is a way’. Despite having lost a leg and badly damaged the other in a road accident, the girl is taking her BA examinations from her hospital bed and aspires to become a professor when she grows up.

A resident of Aanwal village in the district, Preeti, who studies at Government College for Women here, was waiting for a bus at the village bus stop along with some other girls on March 20. All of a sudden, two trucks collided with each other on the road in front of her.

“She pushed two girls in order to save them as one of the trucks came towards them. However, she herself got run over by the truck and her legs got crushed under it. She was rushed to the PGIMS, where one of her legs had to be amputated and other one has also been operated upon,” says Preeti’s sister Sarita.

The debilitating mishap notwithstanding, Preeti expressed her wish to take her BA-I exams which were slated to begin on May 1. Her family members advised her to skip the examinations, but she persuaded them.

“Finally, after making several rounds of the college, university and hospital authorities, she was allowed to take her exams from the hospital bed with the help of a writer. She is not able to get up or even sit, but has taken her second exam on Thursday,” says Preeti’s brother Virender.

“I want to have a good education and be self-reliant in life, despite whatever has happened to me. I will do whatever it takes,” asserts the girl.