I am slowly becoming a fan of Solar News Channel because of their shows. 'Undercover Boss' is my favorite show, because it features how bosses are willing to go undercover to know the problem and issues of their own companies, deal with the employees who serve as the backbone of their companies, and later on uncover their real identities to these people and reward them in the end. Last Saturday, as I was channel surfing, I chanced upon 'Stories', a documentary show on the Solar News Channel. The story that night was about how a group of UK doctors went to Vietnam, more specifically Danang Hospital, to help those who have facial deformities. The medical team will only be staying in Vietnam for 7 days and they need to help 7 patients with serious facial deformities. The challenge for these doctors was choosing who to help among the many number of patients expecting to be cured. I never knew that many people in Vietnam have facial deformities. They have, i think, one of the highest number of people with birth defects. The lack of medical help and equipment have forced these same people to just accept their fate. What made it worse was poverty. It made me feel very lucky and sad at the same time. Lucky because no one in my family has a similar problem. Sad because the usual problems of not having money and not getting the right medical help are forcing these people to accept their situation. What impressed me in the end was the idea of bringing 3 patients to London for their operation and treatment.
The viewer will, in the beginning, be saddened by the plight of these patients. Making one realize that, in our society, we still laugh upon those who do not look 'normal' or 'acceptable' based on what most of us have made standards. That even if we have started to accept black as beautiful, we are not still ready to accept those whose faces are deformed. That even if most of us say that we put no discrimination on people on wheelchairs, we still pass them in elevators, and some companies still do not employ them. Despite these realizations, one compelling lesson is unforgettable all throughout: that one should not lose hope even if the odds may go against him most of the times.
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