Agra, Jan 4 (TIWN) A junior doctor at the government-run S.N. Medical College has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise Rs 1 crore to purchase a drug crucial for life-saving immune-mediated chemotherapy for her mother.

The junior resident, Dr Anjali Gupta, has also requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for help.  The doctor’s mother is suffering from metastatic triple-negative breast cancer and is undergoing treatment at Dr B.R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.  Her mother, Daya Gupta, 60, has been suffering from breast cancer since 2019.  Doctors have tried four different types of chemotherapy since January 2021 but the cancer is still progressing.