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Tuesday 3 November 2009

Buatan orang?

It was past 12 noon, and the Socso officer who came to do a random check of my Company's salary and socso files had just left my office when a call came in on my hand phone, from an unfamiliar number. Seeing that it was from a local number and not a KL number where most of those annoying telemarketing calls come from, I answered the call.

"Ini Puan Afizah ke?"

"Ya, saya." (I never care if people call me Cik or Puan or kakak or makcik or even Opah...)

"Saya nak mintak tolong sikitlah. Puan ni dari Buddies of Ipoh kan?" (with the correct pronunciation of Buddies)

The caller, whom I initially thought was a lady, was worried about a friend who had gone for a blood test at the hospital near their place, and since the result of the first test was positive, was called to come for a second test to confirm.

The caller wasn't sure if the friend had gone for further follow-ups but she suspected not. When I asked if the friend had been to the Ipoh ID clinic, the answer was no. With that simple answer, I knew the friend never went for follow-up. All HIV cases would have been referred to Ipoh GH, and so if the friend had not been to Ipoh GH, then definitely he/she had not gone for follow up.

The caller was concerned because the friend's condition seemed to have deteriorated. The caller was convinced that the friend needs counselling help. It was only during the course of our conversation did I find out that both the caller and the friend were maknyahs. Ahh, no wonder the "lenggok" of the caller's speaking style was a bit different despite sounding a lot like a lady (I am definitely much more kasar!). He/she even mentioned that the HIV+ friend was one of the most beautiful maknyahs in town.

Despite being a maknyah, the HIV+ friend had no problem being accepted by his own family. The only problem is, based on what the caller told me, I doubt the parents really knew what HIV is all about. To them, their son was a victim of "buatan orang" and they believe that the only method of treatment would have to be done by a bomoh.

The caller did mention that another reason for the friend not wanting to go for follow ups was probably because they live in such a small community, even the people working at the hospital knew the family. And so I suppose there were some sok sek sok sek going around.

Well, I advised the caller to try and coax the friend to go to the hospital. Once they can get the referral letter, all follow ups are done at the Ipoh GH and no longer at the district hospital near their place. The caller then promised to try do the necessary and then will call me back.

Maybe the parents (and the patient) are in denial. Maybe lah. Hmmmm.... and maybe another option would be for me to go visit them, disguised as a professional bomoh, jampi-jampi a bit, and then sambil menurun give instructions to the guy to go to the hospital?

 

Wahai penunggu badan yang lenguh

Jangan kau gatal nak main kotor

Jangan tunggu jangan tangguh

Nyah kau ke hospital jumpa doktor!

 

PTUIIIHH!!

(kena ludah seround lah, baru real sikit...)

And oh, and then ask for a Blackberry Storm as pengeras maybe?

11 comments:

Naz in Norway said...

Salam Kak Pi,
In a way, it IS buatan orang ;)
Let's hope they will seek help before it is too late.
There are still people who think that even cancer is buatan orang. Thus they seek tok bomoh instead of proper treatment...

Kerp (Ph.D) said...

kahkahh...kalo bukan buatan orang, bukan melayu la namanya. i used to believe bomoh has a special magical power to cure all the illnesses under the sun. but a few treatments were enough to turn me into hardcore sceptic. admittedly there are those who are sincere in helping but majority are nothing but baloneys.

gi hospital je la...mintak doctor jampi pakai stethoscope.

Pi Bani said...

Naz,
Memanglah orang yang buat... made in Malaysia some more. I do hope the caller will be able to coax the friend to go to the hospital. Otherwise there's not much we can do.

Pi Bani said...

Kerp,
Not just bomoh, ada some ubat out there which is supposed to be able to cure all the illnesses you can think of. Imagine the same bottle with the very same contents can cure... diabetes, resdung, darah tinggi, lemah jantung, gout, and entah apa-apa lagi lah. Kan senang macam tu? Kalau pergi hospital jumpa doktor, lain penyakit kena jumpa lain specialist... ;)

Cat-from-Sydney said...

Aunty Pi,
The guy/gal concerned is lucky coz he/she has a friend who cares for him/her. Buatan orang? hahahah...
The other one we hear often too: pakai ilmu.
"Cik Pi tu pakai ilmu apa sampai mak nyah pun cari dia?"
How's my BM? Alright or not? purrr...meow!

Pi Bani said...

Cat-in-Sydney,
Speaking of pakai ilmu, ada one lady in my kampong, upon seeing that my siblings all did fairly well in our academics and careers, asked my mother pakai ilmu apa. Siap stress, "MESTI ada pakai apa2 ilmu ni!" My mother got pissed off with her ever since. Just because anak dia tak berjaya, she thinks anyone whose anak-anak semua berjaya mesti ada pakai whatever ilmu to succeed. Doesn't she believe in usaha, doa & tawakkal??

p/s
Cik Pi pakai ilmu alam... (bukan putar alam tau!)

Unknown said...

I lIke your jampi serapah and permintaan pengeras tu... ada classss!

Buatan orang? Cliche nye minda orang kita kan kak? sikit - sikit buatan orang... heh!

Pi Bani said...

RG,
Sebab minda orang kita yang cliche tu lah kena keluar jampi serapah and pengeras yang kurang cliche... :)

Mysunshine cake said...

salam,
my pleasure to 'meet' you sis ^_^. what a small world. yeap, harapnya more people will knw abt RTAR.. insyallah

zar

Pi Bani said...

Zar,
It's a good thing you're doing there. Keep it up. InsyaAllah soon more people will know about RTAR and help them with the monthly expenses.

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