No citizen card, no money cannot go to hospital

By Chan Mon (IMNA) (Yepyu)

September 28, 2004

A leg cut patient who stepped on the landmine during he returned home from fishing could not go to take treatment inside Burma because of no citizen card said by the patient’s father who brought his son to a Christian Hospital in Thai-Burma border for four days walked from his camp.

Bo Naung, 23 years old stepped landmine, where was his father and friend passed before him when they went back to home, in east part of Ye Pyu Township, near Internal Displace People (IDP) camp called Chao Done according to his father, Mr.U Chit.

U Chit who has lived in the camp for 15 years said, “We cannot go back to take treatment inside Burma because we don’t have citizen card. If we go, we have to take a lot of time to pass Burmese soldier gate. At the moment, the News Mon State Party’s traveling letter is not working because some conflicts happened between NMSP and SPDC soldier in the area.”

“To take treatment in Tavoy district hospital under the NMSP controlled area is impossible because there are no operation theater and operation material. It is jungle camp. It has bad transportation. That’s why we chose to bring my son to Kawae River Christian Hospital,” U Chit added.

Bo Naung’s right leg until upper kneecap was cut because bad transportation made his right leg bad smell and serious. His left leg, some other body part and hand wounded.

“We have to carry him for four days on the jungle road crossed the high mountain to reach hear and save his life. We had used 15 people to carry Bo Naung who was regularly unconscious a long the way with no medical worker,” said Mr. Nai Se who carried Bo Naught to the hospital.

Bo Naung was the oldest son of U Chit and he was who look after of his younger brother and sister with his father after his mother pass away.

He was fishing, farming to survive in the IDP camp together with other IDP camps where more than one hundred family IDP from Tavoy and Yepyu have reached in this year, according to Mon National Relief and Development Committee.

Such Bo Naung there are a lot of people from inside Burma who do not have money and citizen card , are reaching the border area to save their patient.

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