KUCHING: Hope Place Kuching visited a bedridden stroke patient and his family recently after being informed by a Sarawak General Hospital Social Welfare officer.
Bong Ching Tse, 35, suffered a stroke last October and lives with his mother and younger brother.
The non-governmental organisation (NGO) said Bong also had a major operation last year and was hospitalised for two months end of last year and, currently, he is unable to talk and only moves a little.
“Bong’s mother is now taking care of him at home. Bong’s father died when Bong was only three years old.
“Years ago, being a widow with two very young boys, Bong’s mother became a tailor to make ends meet. Bong, who used to be a car mechanic, now has to depend on his brother, who is a handphone salesman, to earn income for the family,” Hope Place said in a statement, today.
The NGO is supplying Bong special milk powder supplements, recommended by doctors. which he consumes five to six times daily. Sometimes he eats watery rice porridge.
Bong also had just applied for assistance from the Social Welfare Department and is awaiting a reply.
Hope Place or Persatuan Kebajikan Harapan Kuching (PKHK) can be reached at 082-505987. Opening hours are from 8am to 5pm from Mondays to Fridays and 8am to 12pm on
Saturdays.
The NGO welcomes donations. Donors can donate directly to its bank account MBB: 511289001160 or go to its Facebook page to get its S PAY GLOBAL QR code.
