A caring home to help the needy abandoned patients in Hospital Kuala Lumpur

Today, you may have come across many NGOs or societies that care for abandoned kids but there is hardlyone that really cares for abandoned patients in public hospitals. They also need us to supportthem at this ending part of their lives, so we are here to help them too.

Rumah Kasih Hospital Kuala Lumpur, one of the subsidiary services of Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) established in September 2000, is a charity home that takes care of the old, terminally ill and helpless patients that are abandoned in the hospital (PesakitTerdampar di Hospital). Its Advisor is Hospital Director, Datuk Dr. Hj. Ramlee Hj. Rahmat. Organizing Chairman is Hospital Kuala Lumpur Senior Assistant Director, Dr. Ng Thiew Kim, Honorary Advisor - Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye, Chairman of Board of Visitors.

Service Manager is Hospital Kuala Lumpur ex-Senior Medical Technologist, Mr. Foong Peng Lam. He is fully authorized with the management and contacts with the patients and family members, to help the old, terminally ill and helpless patients that are abandoned in the hospital.

KL is an institution of excellence in health care and our nation's referral centre. As the largest hospital in Malaysia and one of the biggest in Asia, it has about 2,331 in-patients and the out-patients departments see an average of 4,000 out-patients a day. There are helpless patients after they are discharged they really have no shelter or food after they leave the hospital wards, in view of that they prefer to stay put in the hospital.

There are also hundreds of old people have been abandoned by their children or next-of-kin who give false addresses and telephone contact numbers to the hospital, to prevent the hospital authorities from tracing them. They just shirk the responsibility of taking care of their sickly family members.

The hospital faces the shortage of beds and the welfare homes are full most of the time, some are over crowded. The worst scenario is that the number of patients abandoned in HKL keeps growing. This hospital tops the list of hospitals with the most abandoned people.

Rumah Kasih offers free shelter, food and medical treatment for the old, terminally ill and poor needy patients. Here we have diabetics without limbs, cancer patients disowned by their children, mentally-challenged people whose families could not be traced , paralytic patients and accident victims, old people who have simple outlived their usefulness. Too old, sick or handicapped to work. Some abandoned people have no one to turn to in the entire world. Some of their families are too poor, and some have faded out of memory.

Those with lost of memory whose relatives were traced ,have retrieve them anda ccident victim recovered from the effects of their injuries went back to society to be productive citizens.

When the hospital encounters such abandoned helpless needy patients and the beds are urgently needed to treat other more serious cases, they are referred to Rumah Kasih to accommodate them and take care of their medical problems free of charge.

Since the year of 2000, Rumah Kasih has look after and now are still looking after a substantial number of abandoned patients. We just cannot solve this problem because the hospital needs vacant beds urgently to treat other more serious cases. However, the understanding Inland Revenue Department helps us by giving tax exemption status to our kind and generous supporters.

Thanks to the kind and generous care givers apart from supporting us to take care of these patients, some haveaccorded decent respectable funeral services to the deceased of poor families and destitute (grief-stricken families who need help or anyone who wish to help these families, please do not hesitate to call us)