THANE, July 5 -- Three days after he was hit by a falling tree, Pawan Jha, 52, can still barely move. He fractured three vertebrae when the tree came crashing down at Wagle Estate on Wednesday, damaging a bus and ten other vehicles as well. On Friday, Jha was discharged from hospital but will require complete bed rest for at least two months. If he does not heal on its own, he will have to undergo surgery. Either way, doctors say his back will remain weak and Jha should avoid lifting heavy objects and performing strenuous work for the rest of his life. Jha is an electrician and his daughter Naina, 22, who has remained by his side since the accident, says her father's work, due to its very nature, is physically demanding. "How can he learn a new trade at this age," she asks. "He is the sole breadwinner of our family, which includes my mother, who is a homemaker, and my younger sister and brother." Naina works as a salesperson, a job she landed only recently, and has almost exhausted her savings to pay her father's mounting hospital bills. The accident - which she blames on the municipality - has already cost Rs.45,000 so far. "I can no longer afford the medicines, which cost Rs.3,000-5,000 every day. Besides, many of them are difficult to find because of the heavy rain," says Naina. She says no one from the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has visited her father in the hospital. "No one has come, even though he is lying here, due to their negligence. It was the TMC's responsibility to trim or remove the tree since it was in danger of toppling. They haven't bothered to ask whether we can afford his treatment," says Naina. Through the trauma, Naina sees a silver lining. "He could have lost his life, like the schoolboy who died when a tree fell the same day," she says....