There is this show hosted by Belinda Lee on every Thursday 930pm and repeated telecast 1130pm.
I like watching this type of show- travel, nature, social documentary show + an occasional japanese serial drama on TV. As for the rest, I think they are trash.
But anyway, I caught this week episode and Belinda was off to China to find a social worker who is working in China for the orphans and the mentally ill patients. I'm not very sure which region in China but i suspect it might be in Yunnan. The social worker is a psychiatrist and she studied in England before, spoke good English and give everything up in Singapore to work with the foundation set up to take care of the people as mentioned above. She do not draw any salary from the foundation, depending on her family members and friends for donation in Singapore to keep her going. To visit a patient, she hae to trek up the steep slope or mountain for 2 hours, just to visit the orphans or just 1 single patient. I think she is really an angel send from above.
There is a moment in the show when Belinda cried and wept tears. A grown up man was kept inside a mini "pig sty" constructed with wooden logs since the age of 18. He shit and urinate inside the small compound and have not bath ever since he was 'imprisioned' inside. He is only 25 yrs old this year. Apparantly, he was a schizophrenic ( for those who dunno what is it, it mean the patient can hear voice in his head ) and he burnt down the villager house. Guilty stricken, he just sat down in the middle offering no resistance while the villagers constructed the "prison" around him, condemning him to his fate.
The thing is, the social worker felt his condition was not that serious and if given the right medication and proper care, he can actually recover from the illness and go back to toil the land with his mother but who on earth or which doctor will be available to actually walk the same path and climbed mountain just to treat this nobody? The villagers are very poor, they are farmers and they have nothing to offer.
There are no moral of the story over here. Perhaps it is just a awakening moment to make us realise that we are a fortunate bunch, there are many people who are still suffering amid the globalisation stage and going offline without internet service and handphone is not the end of the world.
posted by Immortali @ 11:31 am
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