K. Ganga is staring at an uncertain future after losing her husband Chinna Bheemaiah (27), one of the two residents of Madhapur’s Vaddera basthi who died due to alleged water contamination.
The tragedy has left her saddled with several responsibilities, which includes providing for her two sons, aged nine and three, and repaying the debt that the family had taken to build a small house in the basthi. Ganga is in her early 20s and works as a domestic maid.
“My younger son fell sick last Wednesday, When his condition turned serious the next day, I decided to take him to a hospital. My husband had started vomitting by then. He insisted that I leave him behind at home and take our younger son to hospital. He suffered alone and died the next morning,” sobs Ganga. Bheemaiah used to wash cars at an automobile showroom.
