He overcame paralysis and numerous neurosurgeries to score 57 per cent in SSC, and now doctors at Wockhardt hospital at Mira Road are working towards helping 15-year-old Samson Collin secure admission in a good college by writing to the Maharashtra education department.

A freak bike accident in September 2014, caused internal bleeding in Samson’s (15) brain leading to impaired speech and paralysis of the right arm and leg. Though doctors at advised him complete bed rest till December last year and not to appear for his SSC board examinations, Collin took up the challenge and determined not to lose a year, he wrote all his papers with his left hand.