Chinese father of cancer-stricken girl offers himself as ‘bride’ to anyone who can save her
After five years of struggling to pay for his nine-year-old daughter’s leukaemia treatment, desperate dad says ‘dignity means nothing to me’
The father of a young girl with leukaemia has offered himself as a “bride” to anyone who can help cover the cost of his daughter’s medical treatment, according to a Chinese media report.
Guo Anchuan, a 45-year-old carpenter from Zigong in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, said he resorted to the extreme measure after struggling for five years to find the money he needed, website Cover News reported on Sunday.
His nine-year-old daughter, Guo Yuting, was diagnosed in 2013 with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, an aggressive form of blood cancer in which the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells.
After borrowing 200,000 yuan (US$31,200) from his relatives, Guo was able to pay for eight rounds of chemotherapy, and by 2015 his daughter appeared to be doing well.
Sadly, Guo Yuting suffered a relapse earlier this year and since then her father has been finding it difficult to scrape together the money he needs for her continued treatment, the report said.