Chengde responded that ＂terminally ill single mother asks for help for mentally disabled adopted daughter＂： the child has been sent to welfare home.
A single mother with cancer turned to the government for help. Source: Leader Message Board official website screenshot
Recently, a single mother suffering from cancer in Changgou Village, Dashuiquan Town, Xinglong County, Chengde City, Hebei Province left a message on People’s Daily Online "Local Leaders Message Board" asking for help, hoping that the government could help her find a rescue agency to raise and take care of her adopted daughter with intellectual disability.
The Social Situation and Public Opinion Office of Chengde Municipal Committee has replied at the bottom of the message board that the relevant units of Chengde Civil Affairs Bureau and Xinglong County have carefully checked. After active coordination, relevant issues have been properly solved.
On July 5, a staff member of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Xinglong County, Chengde City told The Paper that at present, the child has been sent to Chengde Welfare Institute, which is responsible for his daily life; The mother of the child still needs regular medical treatment. At present, in view of the above situation, relevant problems have been arranged to be solved.
On July 5th, a staff member of Xinglong County Party Committee Office told The Paper that the mother was divorced, suffering from advanced cervical cancer, and her adopted child was mentally disabled. A month ago, they raised about 6,000 yuan for it and have completed the last phase of chemotherapy. At present, the mother is in good health and will be reviewed in three months. "The follow-up cost is not very high. She is now working with her friends and earning a little money. There is nothing wrong with life at present. " The staff member said that in the next step, after her body recovered, the mother was going to set up a stall in the market.
The above-mentioned staff said that they would continue to follow up her physical condition and provide corresponding help.
The staff member also mentioned that at first, the mother had no time to rest because she needed to take care of her children alone for 24 hours. She thought she had no hope of recovery, so she gave up treatment and went through the procedure of donating her body. At present, the child has been arranged to be taken care of by Chengde Welfare Institute. He said that local volunteers will also be regularly organized to go to the welfare home with the mother to see the children.
On the same day, a staff member in charge of subsistence allowances in Xinglong County said that they had raised the low premiums of mother and daughter to the highest standard. Originally, the mother’s monthly fee was 245 yuan, and the daughter’s monthly fee was 255 yuan. Now, both of them have been raised to 400 yuan per person per month.
The Paper noticed that the aforementioned single mother wrote on the message board that in 2006, she lost her fertility due to tubal blockage and ectopic pregnancy surgery; In 2013, her mother adopted a baby girl from a pair of Tianjin parents under the age of 18. Subsequently, the baby girl was raised by her, but unfortunately she suffered from encephalitis, which caused secondary mental disability. To this end, she borrowed 300,000 yuan to treat her children.
She also wrote that she divorced her husband in 2019. Because the opposite sex was not related by blood, her ex-husband could not be the guardian of her adopted daughter alone, and the court awarded her custody of the child. The child is 9 years old this year. He can’t take care of himself and needs long-term care. In July 2020, she was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer. After radiotherapy and chemotherapy, she is still receiving follow-up treatment. However, because she found it too late to surgically remove the lesion, she was extremely weak and thus lost her ability to work.
"Give the child a chance to live when I have to say goodbye to this world." The single mother wrote.