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| mickthesick |
Posted
on 30-Oct-03 11:34 AM
..This is what a nepali newsreporter had to say about the death of the child born with it's heart outside the chest...
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"Freak child dead"
A neonate with her heart outside the chest died for want of timely medical treatment, The Himalayan Times reported.
The child passed away just before a medical team, along with a physician from the National Medical College , Birgunj, arrived at Gauritol, Dumkhana in Bara. The child managed to survive for 48 hours.
"The child would have survived if she had been taken to any tertiary hospital," physician Kaushal Tiwari said. nepalnews.com br Oct.30
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what really offended me was the very term used in the headlines "freak child dead".....isn't it a little too serious issue....the child was born with it's heart outside it's chest doesn't make it a freak.....i personally think that this is news reporting at its worst......
God Bless nepali reporters....
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| DWI |
Posted
on 30-Oct-03 11:35 AM
My sentiments exactly when I read it today morning.
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| ruby |
Posted
on 30-Oct-03 11:43 AM
oh my god! that is so messed up!
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| DISCO |
Posted
on 30-Oct-03 11:47 AM
I wonder how a hospital would respond the next time they bring in a "Freak Child". Reporters forget the responsibility they have on society.
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| M.P. |
Posted
on 30-Oct-03 12:39 PM
Do they have editors in Nepalnews or do they just tell the computer geeks at Mercantile in Nepali and ask them to translate in English and post it?
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http://newsofnepal.com/ has replaced nepalnews.com in my favorite list.
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| BMW |
Posted
on 30-Oct-03 12:51 PM
thats' terrible.. may the little child rest in peace.
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| Bilbo Baggins |
Posted
on 30-Oct-03 02:25 PM
Nepali media, like most of Nepal's institutes, treat "apangas" as dirt. This is sad but a reality. The institutes of Nepal in general are very offensive and insensitive. How do we change this... ?
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| DISCO |
Posted
on 30-Oct-03 02:37 PM
True Bilbo, not just the media but most of us nepalis (duh!) have that tendency, I just learned that last week when an older nepali person refered to a handicap space as "Khudoo ko Thawoo". Thre is definitely a lot of educating to do on that regard in our society.
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| funnyface |
Posted
on 31-Oct-03 01:03 AM
hey bilbo,i have always been aware of how our ppl tend to completely ostracise kids who r are not "normal". im currently in singapore living in a lil contingent along with a number of fellow nepalese . and theres a handful of these mentally disabled kids who are often sneered at and blessedly they are they are mostly really happy goodnatured kids and quite unaware. but its really hard on the parents and siblings. and its saddening how they are kept locked away . the worst part i guess is that theres not much one can do as an outsider . or is there?
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