The Visually Impaired and Handicapped at Bukit Malut

The first 3 photos shows Aishah and her 4 daughters. Aishah is one of the fire victims of Bukit Malut. All 4 of her daughters were born with an eye disorder that makes them squint in the daylight and this is painful sometimes. According to Aishah, all her daughters are normal at night.

I brought them to the specialist clinic at the Langkawi General Hospital where an eye specialist attended to them. He recommended that they wear protective sun glasses in the daytime while he runs other tests on their eye conditions. Dont' they look cute with their sun glasses in the 3rd photo?

The 4th photo shows Yusof Jamaludin and his sister. Yusuf is going totally blind and can only see vaguely through one eye while his sister's condition is slightly better.

I brought them to see the eye specialist and a cataract operation was arranged for Yusuf's sister. However the operation did not do much for Yusuf's sister, but she said that her condition was slightly better after the operation. Unfortunately for Yusuf, he was too far gone and nothing could be done.

The 5th photo shows Ismail, 17 years old, who was born handicapped. He cannot walk nor talk, but he is a very cheerful and intelligent young man. His father recently died of old age and Yusuf is left on his own while his 59 years old mother goes to work for RM6 a day processing ikan bilis at a nearby ikan bilis factory whenever there is work to do. During hard times, her neighbours chip in to help. But even their neighours have their own problems too, therefore I help whenever I can. Vicki Mah, Social Worker