Dubai, July 11: An Indian expatriate organisation in Bahrain is on a fund-raising campaign to send back home for treatment a Malayali tailor who is in a Manama hospital in an unconscious state.

According to reports, 58-year-old Pushpangathan Shankaran, who has been working as a tailor in Muharraq in northern Bahrain for the last 28 years, was admitted to hospital last month in an unconscious state. He has a history of vertigo and ataxia, or the loss of the ability to co-ordinate muscular movement.

A report in the Gulf Daily News newspaper said that an Indian community organisation, Surya Charitable and Cultural Association (SCCA), is carrying out a fund-raising campaign to send Shankaran home. He had been admitted to the Salamaniya Medical Complex in Manama.

Manoj Maiyanoor, SCCA secretary, was quoted by the daily as saying that Shankaran's family was living below the poverty line, and his own monthly income was hardly 60 Bahraini dinars (BD) ($159).

"He is going to need no less than BD 3,000 to travel to his country and for initial treatment expenses," Maiyanoor told the newspaper.

Shankaran is the sole breadwinner of his family, which comprises his wife, two sons, a daughter and three sisters. He hails from Thrissur, Kerala.