Overcoming the 'death trap', patient donates remaining support money to other difficult circumstances

(Baonghean.vn) – Suffering from blood infection, liver and kidney failure, pneumonia, having to have a tracheostomy and be put on a ventilator, the family asked to go home and wait for death because they ran out of money. With the help of volunteer groups, patient Tran Danh Tuyen has now recovered and been discharged from the hospital.

Back from the dead...

The Faith Group congratulates patient Tran Danh Tuyen on his recovery and discharge from the hospital on August 26, 2016, photo: An Nguyen

Patient Tran Danh Tuyen, residing in Khe Lau hamlet, Nam Kim commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An, was infected with tetanus, blood infection, leading to liver failure, kidney failure, pneumonia, had to have a tracheostomy, and was put on a ventilator. He was treated at the Tropical Diseases Department (Nghe An General Hospital) in a life-threatening condition. Initially, due to not having enough money for treatment, the family asked the hospital to take him home to wait for death...

The Faith Group visited patient Tran Danh Tuyen in critical condition at Nghe An General Hospital, photo by An Nguyen.

However, the doctors and nurses of Nghe An General Hospital, headed by Dr. Que Anh Tram - Head of the Department of Tropical Diseases, tried their best to save the patient and tried to contact volunteer groups for treatment. Faced with the especially difficult circumstances of the patient and his family, charity groups and benefactors actively mobilized and supported the family with money for treatment up to nearly 230,000,000 VND, of which the Faith Group (a group whose members are a number of officials, civil servants, and workers who voluntarily operate with the criteria of doing good things, with humane meaning to build trust, sympathy, and sharing with difficult and unfortunate situations) supported twice, the total amount of money Faith Group donated was 60,000,000 VND. In addition, through activities such as football exchanges, the Faith group called for support from the Nghe An Amateur Football Association with 10 million VND, the Ha Tinh Charity Group with 35 million VND...

After nearly two months of intensive care and treatment, patient Tuyen recovered and was discharged from the hospital on August 26, 2016.

Upon hearing that the patient had been discharged from the hospital, the Faith Group came to congratulate Mr. Tran Danh Tuyen and his family. In front of the care of the doctors and the Faith Group, Mr. Tuyen and his wife choked up: “We would like to thank the doctors, the charity groups, the philanthropists, especially the care of the Faith Group, for saving my life and my family; without everyone, I would have died, my wife and three children would have no place to live and would not know how to live... I don't know how to repay this favor...”

Surplus money donated to other patients...

What made the Faith Group and his family grateful was that out of the total amount donated for treatment costs, with the remaining 10,000,000 VND, Mr. Tran Danh Tuyen's family voluntarily donated 2,000,000 VND directly to patient Nguyen Thi Bay, who had a serious heart condition and was in dire need of money for treatment.

Philanthropists give gifts to relatives of Patient Tran Danh Tuyen, photo: Tran Minh.

The family would like to donate the remaining amount to the charity fund of Nghe An General Hospital to share with other patients... This is the family's way of "repaying gratitude" - a "repaying gratitude" with profound and extremely great humanistic meaning.

Bao Ngoc