“Bas Ek Baar Mera Beta Khada Ho Jaaye… Mujhe Aur Kuch Nahi Chahiye”

A Mother Who Has Not Slept Peacefully In Months

Nushrat Khan does not ask for much anymore. She does not ask for comfort, money for herself, or an easier life. She says only one thing, again and again, with folded hands and tired eyes: “Bas mera beta theek ho jaaye… bas ek baar khada ho jaaye.” Just let my son stand again.

Raja Khan is only 17 years old. At an age where boys are usually laughing with friends, planning small dreams, going to school or work, and filling homes with noise, Raja now spends his days lying on a hospital bed. His body has weakened, movement has become difficult, and every day feels like a battle he never chose. Beside him sits his mother, watching helplessly, carrying a pain no parent should ever have to carry.

The Day Everything Changed

On 1st December, Raja met with a terrible accident that changed everything.

Before that day, he was healthy, active, and full of life. According to his mother, Raja was always smiling, joking, and bringing energy into the house. “Pehle mera beta bahut khush rehta tha,” she says quietly. “Bahut hasta tha.”

But one accident changed the direction of his life.

Raja was admitted to AIIMS, where he remained under treatment for nearly two months. Those months were full of fear, hospital corridors, medicines, uncertainty, and prayers. His mother stayed beside him, hoping every new day would bring improvement. Eventually, doctors discharged him, and for a brief moment, it felt like maybe things were finally getting better.

But they did not.

When Home Became Another Hospital

For the next four months, Raja stayed at home. Instead of recovering, his condition slowly became more serious. His body grew weaker. His health declined further. The child who once moved freely and laughed loudly slowly became someone who struggled even with the smallest things.

Nushrat tried everything she could. Hospital visits. Medicines. Small treatments. Advice from whoever offered help. But survival itself was already difficult, and slowly, the burden became impossible to carry alone.

That is when someone told her about Mitaan Foundation. About people helping families in crisis. About support reaching those who had nowhere else to go.

A Mother Fighting Completely Alone

Raja’s father passed away when the children were very young. Since then, Nushrat Khan has raised her family alone. She worked as a house help, cleaning homes, washing utensils, and doing whatever work she could find to feed her children.

There was never financial security. No savings for emergencies. No one standing behind her. Only a mother trying to survive for her children.

But for the last five months, she has stopped working completely.

Because Raja cannot be left alone.

“Agar main kaam pe chali gayi toh mere bete ka dhyaan kaun rakhega?” she asks.

And just like that, even the little income they had disappeared.

Whatever money Nushrat had managed to save over years of hard work has already gone into Raja’s treatment. Medicines, travel, consultations, hospital expenses, daily needs. Everything has been spent.

When Family Stops Showing Up

The hardest part has not only been the illness.

It has been the silence.

“Na mere bhai ne madad ki, na rishtedaaron ne,” she says.

Neither her brother nor relatives came forward to help. Sometimes, neighbours offer food or small support, but most days, she is carrying everything alone.

There is one sentence she says that stays with you.

“Mere paas mere bete ke alawa koi nahi hai.”

I have no one except my son.

Watching Raja suffer every day has broken something inside her. “Main usko iss haal mein aur nahi dekh sakti,” she says softly. “I cannot see my son like this anymore.”

The Treatment He Still Needs

Today, Raja’s fight is not over.

After months of complications, doctors have advised continued medical care, rehabilitation, medicines, nutritional support, and constant monitoring to help him recover and regain strength. His treatment is no longer only about surviving the accident. It is now about helping him stand again.

The estimated cost of Raja’s complete treatment is around ₹9,00,000.

For families with financial stability, treatment itself feels overwhelming. For Nushrat Khan, a single mother who survives on daily wage work, this amount feels impossible.

A significant part of this treatment will go toward continued hospital care, medical supervision, and rehabilitation support, helping Raja slowly regain movement and strength. Another major portion will be required for lifesaving medicines, nutritional care, and recovery-related treatment, ensuring his body has the support it needs after months of physical trauma. Costs also continue to rise through tests, consultations, physiotherapy, infection management, and long-term medical monitoring, all of which are critical if Raja is to recover properly.

This is not one surgery or one hospital visit.

This is a long process of recovery.

A process that his mother desperately wants to complete, but can no longer afford alone.

“Main bas itna chahti hoon ki mera beta phir se khada ho jaaye,” she says.

“I only want my son to stand again.”

A Mother’s Only Wish

Today, Mitaan Foundation is helping provide Raja’s medical support and medicines, ensuring his treatment continues when the family can no longer manage alone. But Raja still needs continued care, rehabilitation, and support to stand again.

And his mother still holds onto one small hope.

Not a big house.
Not wealth.
Not comfort.

Just this:

To see her son stand on his own feet again.

Because Raja is only 17 years old. He deserves more than pain. More than hospital beds. More than watching life move ahead while he stays behind.

He deserves another chance to walk, to laugh, to heal, and to live.

And somewhere beside him sits a mother who has already fought harder than most people ever will, still believing that maybe, somehow, her son will stand again.