‘I’m alive because of my father’

Thank you, Appa: Shamine (right) reading a leaflet on thalassaemia awareness with (from left) her mum R. Preima, 37, sister Ashwiniy, 11, and Doraisingam in George Town.

GEORGE TOWN: Thalassaemia patient D. Shamine, 13, believes that she would not be alive today if not for her father.

“There are so many things to say about my father and so little time to say them.