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Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna
The Union Health Minister C P Thakur has come to the rescue of ailing 56-year-old mathematics wizard Bashistha Narayan Singh by agreeing to provide medical treatment for him in Delhi at government cost.
Singh would undergo treatment at Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences.
Singh, suffering from schizophrenia, is lying unattended at his house in Basantpur village in Bhojpur district for several months for want of medical treatment.
Thakur's move follows a request made by Dhanwant Singh Rathore, Bihar unit president of the Kshatriya Seva Mahasangh, to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to extend medical treatment at government cost to the ailing mathematician.
In late 90s then chief minister of Bihar, Laloo Prasad Yadav, had provided for Singh's treatment at National Institute of Mental Health and Science in Bangalore.
But after Singh returned to his village, the state government stopped providing the ailing mathematician medicines prescribed by NIMHANS.
Singh, who hails from a poor family, first shocked his teachers in Patna Science College in early 60s when he used to solve complex mathematical problems.
Singh's mathematical wizardry got him invitations from several American universities for advanced research.
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