Malagan Doctors treat a young Indian girl for a strange skin disease
Shaliní, a young 18-year-old Indian girl suffers from a strange genetic condition that makes her skin shed every forty-five days. Ostracised in her country due to her physical appearance, she is now being attended to by a group of Malagan doctors. In a few days, when she goes back home, Shaliní will pack tablets and a cream in her suitcase. With these, she¿ll begin her new life.
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Shaliní's skin is covered in large dark flakes that shed every month and a half. In her country, where she is known as "the snake girl", she has been ostracised for five years. Ignorance and fear have kept her isolated from society due to a rare hereditary disease, which is not even contagious. Her illness, a genetic alteration known as Lamellar Ichthyosis, affects one in every 300,000 newborns.
An Indian journalist reported her history and, thanks to solidarity, Shaliní is being attended to in Malaga by a group of 19 doctors who are going to improve her quality of life by using a molecule called acidetrino, which will allow her skin to take on a more normal appearance. At the end of this month she will go back to India, with tablets and a cream that will change her life. For the time being, and just with a high dose of care, Shaliní has already recovered her beautiful smile.
