The photo posted by the Facebook user Dieu Thi
Hai Q. shows family members tight the covered body of their dead father, 57, on
a motorbike in the Son La Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Hospital on September
8, 2016
After the
anguished photo of a Vietnamese ethnic man in the northern province of Son La
carrying the covered body of his deceased sister home by bike, a local Facebook
user has posted another picture of a similar incident reportedly occurring at
the same hospital.
The
photo, posted by Dieu Thi Hai Q., from Son La’s Quynh Nhai District, shows
family members tie the covered body of their dead father onto a motorbike on
September 8.
“Due to
insufficient income, they had to carry their father back to their hometown on
their own after not being able to afford a decent form of transportation,” Q.
said in the caption.
According
to the Facebook post, the deceased man was 57 years old, and the photo was
taken at Son La Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Hospital, the very hospital
where a deceased female patient was also taken home by one of her siblings on
motorbike on September 12.
Both
patients in two photos were residents of Quynh Nhai District, Q. said.
Luong Van
Tuan, director of the hospital, confirmed the incident as shown in the photo
posted by Q. with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
Tuan said
the deceased man had succumbed to tuberculosis.
“The
patient passed away after being admitted for about an hour,” he told Tuoi Tre.
“A
representative from the department where the patient had been treated told me
that the family wished to carry the body in that way.”
Tuan
claimed that the hospital had offered the family VND1 million (US$44.84) as
support for the patient’s funeral ritual.
The
heartbreaking photo of Q. came just days after another picture went viral on
social media on Wednesday, showing a man, identified as Lo Van Muon, carry the
covered body of his deceased sister Lo Thi P. back to their hometown by
motorbike.
Muon said
that he had resorted to wrapping his sister in a mat and carried her home on
his bike because he was not able to afford a decent form of transportation.
During an
interview with Tuoi Tre, an official from the Ministry of Health said P. had
left the hospital in a very bad state of health, and eventually passed away
shortly into the journey to home.
Luong
Ngoc Khue, director of the Medical Service Administration under the Ministry of
Health has ordered clarification of the case of P., with a firm penalty to be
issued if any violation is detected.
Asked if
it is a common practice for people to take deceased patient home from the
hospital on motorbike, which had remained secret until it was revealed by the
photo of P., doctor Tuan said he was "uncertain".
"But
to this point I can say these were the only two cases known so far," he
said.
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