Can Korean Doctors Help Acid Attack Victim?

I’ll stop complaining to myself about having a bummer 2011 because I’ve just been reminded indirectly by a news article that others have had it worse. This week, a fellow Malaysian is in South Korea in the hope that doctors in the JK Plastic Surgery Centre in Seoul will be able to help her regain some normalcy after a nightmarish acid attack a few years earlier left her partially blinded and badly scarred. It was particularly harrowing because her own father , who was mentally unsound, was the assailant and her mother died as a result of that attack.


When I first saw the news that Tan Hui Linn was going to receive pro bono treatment under a Medical Korea project, the cynical side of me, I’m ashamed to admit, was thinking – Oh, what a clever way to boost medical tourism in the country. But what really matters is that Hui Linn’s time in Korea won’t be wasted and that her body won’t reject the skin transplants so that the surgeries can indeed take place.

So, here’s wishing Hui Linn all the very best and thank you very much to the Ministry of Health and Welfare and those involved in the Medical Korea project for helping her . Hopefully it will turn out to be a win-win situation for all but especially for this plucky schoolgirl who managed to do well in her exams despite her personal tragedies.

Sources:

http://www.asiaone.com/News/The%2BNew%2BPaper/Story/A1Story20100209-197648.html
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/12/16/nation/10105522&sec=nation
http://www.whatsontianjin.com/news-2057-tan-hui-linn-m-sian-acid-attack-victim-scarred-by-dad-to-get-surgeries-in-s-korea.html
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20111215000893
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medical-korea-concludes-korea-medical-charity-program-for-2011-134901788.html
http://www.medicalkorea.or.kr/eng/index.jsp
http://www.lifestylermag.com/Korean_Wave
http://english.jkplastic.com/jk_about/overview_01.html
http://www.acidviolence.org/index.php/news/malaysian-acid-attack-survivor-to-undergo-plastic-surgery-in-south-korea/