Monday July 6, 2009
Expose sparks off aid for disabled folk
Reports by LESTER KONG, YUEN MEIKENG, ZALINAH NOORDIN and DESIREE TRESA GASPER
PETALING JAYA: Government officers have moved in to improve the conditions of the ‘House of Horror’.
Taman Sinar Harapan shelter has come under scrunity following Sunday Star’s front-page report yesterday on its sorry state.
Officers from the Social Welfare Department, Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, volunteers and hoardes of media personnel descended on the home yesterday.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, who has ordered his officers to check on the residents of the home in Kuala Kubu Baru, wants those confirmed to have mental problems to be transferred to government psychiatric wards for treatment.
There was a marked improvement in the home, which has 200 residents, yesterday. The floors were cleaner, the stench was almost gone and nearly all the inmates were clothed. Previously, some of the home’s residents were naked, chained up, caged and covered in their faeces and urine.
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