At the invitation of Ailing Flower Foundation of US Doctor Jia Ligen, Benevolence’s Taiwanese member, made diagnosis for orphans in Shenzhen and Puning from April 4 to 6, 2010.
Ailing Flower Foundation, US was established in 2007. Its founder, Yang Ailing is an expatriate Chinese in America. Out of her love for Chinese orphans, she founded a children’s center in Shenzhen. Recently, she has adopted three abandoned disabled children from a granny in Puning of Guangdong, who lives by picking garbage. They are given physical and psychological care, and offered education and training so that they will grow up as qualified citizens.
After arriving in Shenzhen, Doctor Jia, together with Ms. Yang and her foreign husband, soon took another 5-hour bus trip to Puning. Then they hurried right to a dirty and dim top apartment of a seven-floor building, where Granny Zhang was feeding the naughty children running about. Examined by Doctor Jia, they were all disabled. Xiao Bai, held in Granny Zhang’s arms, was three years old and had albinism with hair and skin whitened form head to foot. Other three had cleft lips: Xiao Xia, a 5-year-old girl; Xinxin, an 8-year-old boy; and a 3-month-old baby girl still unnamed lying in the bed. Xiao Xia and Xinxin already had repairing operations, but the baby was to be operated on when a little older. Besides, Xiao Xia, as well as another 5-year-old girl – Pengpu, suffering from convulsion, was diagnosed with hot spasm after neurological examination and review of their case histories. And Granny Zhang was told to use medicine or cold towels to cool them down once they would have a fever to prevent convulsion. Another three-year-old boy – Xiao Hao with a melancholy expression that aroused love and pity, had serious heart murmur and cough, and was suspected to contract congenital heart disease and pneumonia. Xiao Song, another 16-year-old girl, had strabismus with two eyes and was a little weak in intelligence. So among them, Xiao Hao and Xao Song needed further examination in the hospital.
On the next morning, Xiao Hao and Xiao Song were taken to Puning Overseas Chinese Hospital. The X-ray, blood and ultrasound examination showed that Xiao Hao had pneumonia and 3cm VSD. However, it was strange that no cyanosis was found on his lips or fingers. So he was immediately hospitalized for pneumonia, whereas the cardiac operation would be performed when he was old enough. As the cerebral MRI of Xiao Song was normal, her slow mind was likely to result from the meningoencephalitis in childhood.
That day, Ailing talked with Granny Zhang about adopting the seven children for it was beyond the granny’s ability to bring them up, and about employing her to take care of them.
On 28, they returned to Shenzhen and examined three more orphans. Debra, a 4-year-old girl, had her nose bitten off as a baby and required cosmetic surgery and psychological rehabilitation at an older age. Jiale, a five-year-boy, had autism and Steven, an 8-year-old boy, hyperactive disorder. They both called for special education.