A family, desperate to bring home their father from a Korean hospital and settle his bills, has launched a fundraising campaign via Facebook and GoFundMe. The children of A Manaf Mohd Noh of Petaling Jaya hope generous Malaysians will come to their aid.
Manaf, 81, had been caring for his wife, who suffered from Parkinson’s disease, up until she died in November last year, the New Straits Times reported. To take his mind off their mother and to give him a rest, his children sent him on a trip to Korea. However, on Dec 4, four days after he reached Seoul, Manaf fell ill and had to be hospitalized.
Doctors at the Gangnam Severance Hospital operated on Manaf after finding a dissected aorta, a condition in which the inner layer of the aorta, the large blood vessel branching off from the heart, tears.
The NST quoted Manaf’s son, Mahfiz, 40, as saying the first surgery cost them RM350,000. A second surgery was done on him when doctors found internal bleeding. The hospital bill has reached RM800,000.
Manaf is now in the intensive care unit and is responding positively to treatment. His children want to bring him back for further treatment here. Mahfiz was quoted as saying: “The hospital will not release our father even if he is fit to travel home, until full payment is made. We are at our wits ends on what to do.
“Getting financial assistance on such short notice is near impossible. Even if the siblings put together whatever resources we currently have, it is still not enough to cover the total cost of the bill. His (Manaf) travel insurance only covers up to the age of 79. My father is 81.”
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