Keshab, left, fully recovered, with his brothers and sisters.

Keshab, age 4, had already lost his grandfather and three neighbors to diarrhea during the recent outbreak of this killer disease in the hills of western Nepal. Now, he and his brother Tej were sick.

At midnight, with each boy so weak they were losing consciousness, their father, Krishna, brought them to a mobile health camp that Save the Children was supporting and supplying with the medicines needed to treat diarrhea.

Angat, the assistant health worker on duty, began treating Tej with an IV saline solution. But Keshab was so weak Angat could not find a vein in the little boy's arm to start another IV solution. "I was scared that we would not be able to save Keshab," Angat recalled. "But we tried and luckily we were able to start him on saline treatment."

When Save the Children's partner organization visited Keshab and his family recently in their home, Keshab was found to be fully recovered. He was eating, playing and learning new things at the local early childhood development center. Tej had just enrolled in Grade 11.

“I am happy that we were able to save that little boy’s life,” Angat said.

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Last Updated October 2009