The girl with a melted face
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Sorry if it is a repost, but I just watched this documentary on tv. This sort of thing doesn't normally bother me much, but tonight I had tears running down my manly and grizzled face. 
Young Indonesian girl, hideous burns to chest and face, and her face basically grew into her chest as the burns healed, so her mouth was pulled open all the time, she couldn't look up, and her eyes wouldn't close properly. Also, her arms were sort of welded to the sides of her chest. Horrible, a young girl trapped like that due to lack of medical care.
I lived in the third world for many years, and it does come as a shock to the system when you realise that for some people there just is not any 999 to call, no NHS or even charity hospital to call, just a local semi trained 'witch-doctor'. If you have a bad accident, car smash, whatever, nobody will turn up in hygienic uniform to administer painkillers and treat you expertly. The best you might expect is to be laid on a bed and left to the lady luck how you turn out.
Anyway, through the intervention of an Australian nurse working locally, the girl somehow got taken to the USA after a few years, and a surgeon managed to get her back into fairly good working order. She'll never be Miss Indonesia, but she is a different person to the scarred and deformed 13 years old that the program started with.
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Young Indonesian girl, hideous burns to chest and face, and her face basically grew into her chest as the burns healed, so her mouth was pulled open all the time, she couldn't look up, and her eyes wouldn't close properly. Also, her arms were sort of welded to the sides of her chest. Horrible, a young girl trapped like that due to lack of medical care.
I lived in the third world for many years, and it does come as a shock to the system when you realise that for some people there just is not any 999 to call, no NHS or even charity hospital to call, just a local semi trained 'witch-doctor'. If you have a bad accident, car smash, whatever, nobody will turn up in hygienic uniform to administer painkillers and treat you expertly. The best you might expect is to be laid on a bed and left to the lady luck how you turn out.
Anyway, through the intervention of an Australian nurse working locally, the girl somehow got taken to the USA after a few years, and a surgeon managed to get her back into fairly good working order. She'll never be Miss Indonesia, but she is a different person to the scarred and deformed 13 years old that the program started with.
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Reidy10_0 said:
Just checked piston heads before going to bed.
Thanks for that graphic image to drift off to sleep with.
Here's some reading to amuse you while you drift in and out of your tormented sleep, and reflect on just how terrible the NHS is......Thanks for that graphic image to drift off to sleep with.
http://www.ifcus.org/yulche.shtml
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