Khaled, brother of Ashraf Farouk, the 45-year-old blacksmith who committed suicide because he could not afford chemotherapy for his son who has cancer, said his brother was a poor man who earned as little as LE10 a day to spend on his wife and two children.
“Poverty killed my brother,” he said, demanding the government to provide pension for his family to be able to treat the boy.
His wife Abir said he was a good man. “He was depressed because he did not have a steady job,” she said.
His son said he misses his father. “He always worried about me,” he said.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
