Poor village boy with rare diseases called “neurofibromatosis”

10 year old Sumshere Gurung from the remote village of Chamdila Village of Puranokote VDC in Lamjhung District is suffering from a rare disease “neurofibromatosis”.

His treatment has been sponsored by the clinic and he has undergone 10 operations under the care of Nepal’s senior plastic surgeon Dr. K D Joshi who performed the surgeries at the Bir Hospital and Kathmandu Medical College. More surgeries are planned. There has been a dramatic change in the boy’s appearance that has given him a new lease of life. Sumshere now studies in Kathmandu in class 8. Thanks to an orphanage run by President Mali’s alma mater St. Xavier’s School, Jawalakhel.