Zhang Jun Chao, who will be 2 years old in four months, has his left leg wrapped in a thick plaster cast. Photo by South Urban Daily reporter Huang Ji Hao. South Urban Daily news, reported by薛Bing Ni and intern Lin Hong Hai - If it weren't for the plight of his young son, Fujian farmer Zhang He Bao would never have left his small town. In Guangzhou, his nearly 2-year-old son was diagnosed with congenital leg length discrepancy, a disease with an incidence rate of only one in ten thousand. It is introduced that the current medical level in China has a cure rate of less than 30%, and in the worst-case scenario, amputation may be necessary. This impoverished father also suffers from congenital neurofibroma, and his wife is deaf. Yesterday, he frankly stated that if he could cure his young son, he would sell his house to seek medical treatment. The domestic medical level cure rate is less than 30%. On the orthopedic bed at the Baiyun branch of the Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangdong Province, Zhang Jun Chao, who will be 2 years old in four months, has his right foot wrapped in a thick plaster, playing with a baby bottle and a mobile phone. Father Zhang He Bao introduced that the family are farmers from Shibi Village, Ninghua Stone Wall Town, Sanming City, Fujian Province. Four months after the birth of his son, while giving him a bath, he accidentally discovered that his son's legs were different lengths. Afterwards, after seeking medical treatment at a local hospital in Fujian, the doctor removed part of the curved tibia from the child, but the bone did not continue to grow, making the condition more complicated. Later, upon the recommendation of friends, they transferred to a hospital here in Guangzhou. Director Zhang Xiao of the Orthopedics Department at the Baiyun branch of the Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangdong Province introduced that Zhang Jun Chao suffers from congenital fibrous dysplasia of the tibia and fibula with pseudoarthrosis of the tibia and fibula. Due to the congenital curvature of the tibia in the lower leg of the right leg, a false joint was produced, which directly resulted in the difference in leg length. The incidence of this disease is only one in ten thousand, and previously there were only two or three similar cases encountered. According to the current medical level in China, the cure rate is less than 30%. He said that Zhang Jun Chao has already completed the first phase of surgery, and then will decide whether to undergo further surgeries based on the development of the condition. The worst-case scenario is amputation, meaning that in the future, he can only use prosthetics. "The prognosis of the surgery is still not optimistic, because the child is in the growth period, the entire surgical cycle is also relatively long, and it will take two or three years to determine whether he is cured. The estimated total cost of the surgery is around 100,000 yuan." "Planning to sell the house to treat the child" A 100,000 yuan expenditure is almost a devastating blow to this farming family. However, this farmer with only a junior high school education still has strong hope for his son's condition. "If it can be cured, I plan to sell the house and spare no effort to treat the child." Zhang He Bao told the South Urban Daily reporter that he also suffers from congenital neurofibroma, with tumors of varying sizes all over his body. He is a farmer, and his wife is also a deaf patient. Since bringing the child out for medical treatment on the nineteenth day of the first lunar month this year, after more than half a year of treatment, they have already accumulated debts of over 40,000 yuan, and the farmland at home has been abandoned. He said that apart from the money owed for his son's medical treatment, he had already owed 180,000 yuan due to building a house, and the money he earns each year from farming is only about 4,000 yuan. Faced with his son whose future is uncertain, Zhang He Bao sighed, "As long as there is a little hope for the child, we will do our best to treat him. If the surgery can cure his 'unequal legs', I will sell the house, and the whole family will rent a house to live in." Share to: Welcome to post comments, I want to comment Weibo recommendation | Today's Weibo hot topics (Editor: SN026)