Mumbai: 8-year-old boy with progeria suffers brain stroke, dies

Mumbai | Saturday | 13th April, 2019

Summary:

In June last year, Ishan suffered a brain stroke that had left the left side of his body paralysed. In 2016, Thane-based Nihal Bitla, campaigner for progeria in India, had succumbed to progeria due to complications of dehydration and heat. We could only visit two before the first stroke paralysed him last year,” Abhijit said. In October, Ishan suffered a second stroke that paralysed his right side. On Wednesday, Ishan was rushed to Nirmaya Hospital after he suffered a brain stroke..