Bangalore:
The only time Prashant Dhananka's parents can see him standing, is in old photographs. Now confined to a motorised wheelchair, Prashant was a bright 20-year-old B Tech student all set to go abroad for an MS degree, when a botched-up surgery in August 1990 left him a paraplegic for life.
"As soon as the news broke, he closed his eyes for two minutes. While opening his eyes, he was smiling and from that day he never cried. Till today, he has never cried and that is a mystery for us. He is such a boy," said Prashant's mother Indira Sheshadri.
Despite the two-decade long legal battle, his 72-year-old father Sheshadri is all praise for the Supreme Court.
"I thank the three judges to me they are like Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesha. I had to put medical case to non-medical people, but they have the art of listening," Prashant's father M R Sheshadri said.
Fighting his case right up to the Supreme Court from his wheelchair, Prashant Dhananka is a ray of hope for all those thousands of Indians who have lost their lives or are crippled forever due to medical negligence.