2024-12-26
Grantee: 4 Chen OO
The reason for applying for medical emergency fund
Condition
Diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. Under the recommendation of the doctor, he has undergone surgical resection, and he will receive health insurance treatment first in consideration of his financial situation, and will be treated with targeted therapy at his own expense.
Support system
The children are all adults and have settled in Taipei. Before the cancer, he lived in Tainan, and because of the treatment, he went north to live at his daughter’s house to receive treatment.
Job
On weekdays, I do odd jobs at the betel nut ice stall in Tainan.
Living expenses
The husband is a truck driver with a salary of only 20K; The property has been loaned for the second child due to the debt of the child. Living expenses were tight, so he was transferred to a municipal hospital for treatment to reduce medical costs. The children are professional soldiers, and the women have regular jobs, but their incomes are not high, and in addition to paying card debts and rent, they also need to support school-age children, and the salary can only support basic family expenses, and cannot help with individual medical expenses for a long time.
Subsidized units
Through the review of the Love Help Fund, the subsidy has been issued.
The application for government care or other multi-unit foundations has been abandoned after assessment because some properties cannot pass the review, and the application documents are also considered to be costly.
Job
The current goal of treatment is to complete 32 sessions of radiotherapy. At home, the client will fold paper lotus flowers while he is physically fit to earn part of the burden of $150 per outpatient call and radiotherapy treatment.
Treatment status
After being persuaded by the municipal physician, he was transferred back to Tainan Chengda Hospital to complete chemotherapy. Radiation therapy began in mid-April. It is expected to end by the end of May.
Inability to receive self-financed targeted therapy due to financial factors; She still has a history of hepatitis, and because the medical center is subdivided, she needs to pay additional medical expenses for multi-specialty outpatient and radiotherapy every month, so she hopes to be transferred back to the municipal hospital for treatment to reduce her daily expenses.
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