Vang Thi Pang is being treated at theVietnam-Germany Hospital.

Vang A Thao, 27, and his 24-year-old wife Giang Thi Ly had only over VND100,000 (USD4.20) left when their four-year-old daughter Vang Thi Pang had to be transferred from a hospital in Yen Bai to the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi over a week ago.

Some staff members at the Yen Bai hospital had to help them pay the transport cost.

Despite receiving urgent surgery on October 5, the child remained in a deep coma today.

According to the father, his daughter initially had a headache and he gave her some herbs he found from a forest near his home.

"I gave her herbal medicine for several days but the pain did not reduce," he said in tears. "And we had to rush her to a local hospital after she fainted. As her condition was serious, local doctors transferred her to Hanoi."

The poor man said that both he and his wife come from the H'mong ethnic group and they are both illiterate.

"We only grow rice and corn around our house and struggle to make ends meet to raise our two small children," he said. "Now we don't know where to find money to pay for the hospital treatment for my daughter."

Thao and Ly now have no money left and live on the donated food provided by some charity groups at the hospital.

Speaking about Pang's condition, Doctor Pham Duc Hieu at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital said that she is still in critical condition after the surgery.

"Pang will need more costly treatment to overcome the disease," the doctor said. "However, her family is facing financial difficulties to cover the treatment. We hope they will receive community support to save their child."

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