Sympathy for the boy with severe burns

Le Van Nhat is the second son of Le Van Binh (born in 1984) and Duong Thi Hoi (born in 1993) in Luan Phu hamlet, Dong Van commune, Thanh Chuong district. The couple works as farmers and construction workers to earn extra income to raise their three children. On March 4, Nhat had a high fever and was constantly crying. He went to Thanh Chuong hospital for examination and was diagnosed with pneumonia and otitis media. He was ordered to be hospitalized for treatment. Binh explained that because his family had to prepare a feast, he asked for a prescription for his son to be treated at home and then admitted to the hospital for inpatient treatment.

Nhat's burns were over 50% from chest to feet. Doctors predicted that his heart, liver, and lungs would be severely damaged.

To prepare for tomorrow's meal, the family boiled a large pot of water to cook chicken. Nhat ran to get the phone his father left beside him to see when he suddenly slipped and fell into the pot of boiling water that had just been lifted from the stove. Hearing his son's screams of pain, Binh ran to pick him up. The child's skin was burned from his chest down to his feet. His whole body was red and raw.

After first aid at the District Hospital, the child was transferred to the Maternity and Pediatrics Hospital that same night. Because the burn area was too large, the doctor recommended limiting movement to avoid skin lacerations that could easily lead to infection. But in the early morning of March 6, because the child continued to have a high fever and convulsions, the ambulance promptly transferred him to the Emergency Resuscitation Department of the National Burn Institute (Hanoi) for treatment. With a burn rate of over 50% from the chest down to the feet, the doctor predicted that the heart, liver, and lungs would be severely damaged, the treatment process would be prolonged, and recovery would be difficult to predict.

Because of the pain, Nhat cried until his voice was hoarse. Every time the bandage was changed, the doctor had to anesthetize him and asked his family to go far away from the quarantine area. Because they did not have money to pay the hospital fees, the Cat Linh Charity Association, called on by the hospital, donated 10 million VND to Nhat. After managing to borrow 10 million VND, his grandmother took a bus to bring it out to spend, while Ms. Hoi had to stay home with her youngest son, Le Van Thanh. Thanh, over one year old, was constantly hospitalized for pneumonia treatment. The cycle of being hospitalized for 15 days, being discharged home for 10 days, then being hospitalized for 15 days lasted continuously for several months, making Thanh's health very weak. Since the accident happened to her son, Ms. Hoi has been in pain day and night, both loving her son, worrying, and feeling remorseful for her carelessness that caused the accident to happen to her son. Relatives and neighbors ran back and forth day and night to help her with housework and encouraged her to try to overcome it so she could take care of her two children at home.

After the disaster happened to Nhat's family, the Party Committee and People's Committee of Dong Van Commune (Thanh Chuong) assigned the Commune Youth Union to write a letter calling on Dong Van's children and people from all over the country to support Nhat to have funds for treatment.

Please send all help to Tran Dinh Chuong - Party Committee member, Secretary of Dong Van Commune Youth Union. Tel: 0977.957.367. Pham Viet Tung - Deputy Secretary of Commune Youth Union. Tel: 0981193788.

Or transfer to Account number: 51110000493738 Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam BIDV - Thanh Chuong District Transaction Office.