My visit to Sentosa Hospital Kuching

The Kuching Sentosa Hospital, this is a place for the mental patients get their treatment. And they will also stay here for a very long period of time. The nurse told me that until today, there are no NGO came and celebrate Chinese New Year with them, and she suggest me to write in a letter for the Hospital to request for a visitation.

So I did, and had arrange with my friends in the NGO to go and visit them. I visited the place few years ago, as one of my friend suffer from mental illness, and the in-law them sent her here (what a bastard). I went with one of my friend to visit her, and shockinly she was tie on the bed (both of her hand and food). We then request the nurse to untie her, and start to confrot her. I stay there for that evening, and are suround with patient with mental illness. They will come and approach me, and ask for cigerate. I also hear people screaming, and the mental patients will keep on come and talk to me, mumbling themself. Fortunately, my friend had recover from her illness now, after undergo several treatment at the Sentosa Hospital.

This will be the 2nd time I visit the place, tho is a bit worry, but I told myself I have to be equals to these people. Who knows one day I might also suffer from such illness and need people to come help me too. 

Upond our arrival, the patients there follows the instruction from the nurses, and sit properly in the hall. Waiting for the show to beging, I need to make the introduction, so as always I will make some joke with my audience first, normally my audiences will laugh and react to my joke, but not much respond from them. I tell myself is ok, and lets get the show started.

When we play games with them, they became active. And most of them are trying their best to answer our question in order to win the price. And when we sing, they also know how to clap hands, and sing along with us. We give them food, they also finish the food without waistng a bit. So I'm quite happy to see these.

We follow the nurses to visit the rest of the wards, as some of them are too danger to come out, so they are lock in the ward. We pass the cupcakes to them, and they will come and grab the cupcakes from us. In every wards, there is one nurse looking after then (yes, lock inside the ward with them). I really salute, hat off to the nuses here.

From what I experience last time, honestly I cant really take it. From the visiting last night, I notice that they are really happy to see us there. I shake hand with them, and the old ladies are so happy. There maybe a lot of reason for them to get mental problem, but I really hope that one day, they will recover and go back home to have a good life with their family.