KUALA LUMPUR – A 70-year old stroke patient has not seen or heard from his family for nearly five months since he was admitted to the Lotus Ville Care Centre in Johor Bahru. His immediate family, which includes his wife and two children, has not been footing the RM2,000...
KUALA LUMPUR – A 70-year old stroke patient has not seen or heard from his family for nearly five months since he was admitted to the Lotus Ville Care Centre in Johor Bahru.
While he can’t come to terms with how his family had just abandoned him, Mr Kumar still harbours hope of reconciling with them. But his attempts to call them have gone unanswered as they have changed their phone numbers. Mr Santok Singh, owner of Golden Peacock Care Centre in Penang, has seen two abandonment cases in the last five years. He said the elderly at his nursing home were left by their families because they faced financial constraints, especially if the person is sickly and the cost of care is high.
Hospital Kuala Lumpur saw a 50 per cent rise in patients being abandoned over three years, with the 239 cases in 2020 rising to 358 cases in 2023. In the first five months of 2024, around 166 abandoned cases were recorded in HKL, local media reported. The owner of a nursing home in Johor Bahru, who declined to be named to protect the privacy of his elderly clients, said there had been two such cases at his centre in the last decade.
In response to queries about updated annual statistics of abandoned seniors, the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development told ST that in May 2024, there were 39 such cases in government-run welfare homes despite their families not having to pay fees as government-run welfare homes are free.
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