RENAL patient Jeow Kooi Boo is unable to walk due to a big swelling on his right knee believed to be caused by acute arthritis and the regular dialysis has rendered him weak and bed- ridden.
The 70-year old former farmer, who was diagnosed with renal failure in July, requires dialysis thrice a week.
“I had a fall early this year and only much later the doctors at the Taiping Hospital confirmed I had renal failure.
“Now, I have to depend on my eldest son Lai Peng to bathe me and take me to the toilet,” he said when Barisan Nasional’s Jawi constituency co-ordinator Tan Cheng Liang visited him at his house in Kampung Changkat, Jawi, on Fri-day.
Kooi Boo said he needed RM1,440 for 12 sessions of dialysis a month at Pusat Dialisis Ehsan Perak Sdn Bhd in Parit Buntar, Perak.
Easing the burden: Cheng Liang handing over RM500 to Kooi Boo at his house in Nibong Tebal, watched by Mooi Kee. He said while Lai Peng was committed to assisting him full-time, his other son Lai Ching, 41, earned between RM600 and RM1,000 a month doing odd jobs.
Kooi Boo said that Lai Ching was supporting him and his wife Tan Mooi Kee, 71, who is equally frail but his son also needed to support his wife and three young daughters aged eight, six and four years.
“We used to be a little self- sufficient in terms of food, as we had our own vegetable farm.
“But, since I fell ill, we are finding it hard to make ends meet,” he said, adding that he had two married daughters in Parit Buntar.
Cheng Liang said she would help Kooi Boo apply for the RM300 monthly aid from the state Wel- fare Department as well as apply for the RM200 annual aid under the Federal Government’s Kewan-gan Bantuan MuridMiskin (Needy Pupils Financial Aid) scheme for Lai Ching’s school-going eldest daughter.
“I hope the public can help sponsor a wheelchair for Kooi Boo and provide him with some financial assistance, especially for dialysis,” she said.
She presented him with RM500 from the Jawi Charity Trust Fund.
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