Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/13
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, Aug. 13 (CNA) Sitting at the bedside of her elderly mother, a weeping woman surnamed Hsieh (謝) offered profuse thanks to Supraph, an Indonesian caregiver, for saving her bedridden mother trapped in a deadly fire at a hospital in New Taipei early Monday.

“My mother would not have survived the fire had it not been for Adi,” Hsieh told CNA in the hospital’s emergency room, referring to Supraph who has taken care of Hsieh’s 92-year-old mother since January.

The fire that reportedly broke out at around 4:30 a.m. in the seventh floor long-term care ward in the Xinzhuang (新莊), New Taipei, branch of Taipei Hospital has left nine people dead and 16 injured — 10 with serious injuries and six with minor injuries.

“Adi was very brave and kind-hearted. She didn’t run for her own life when the fire occurred, and the other migrant caregivers didn’t either,” Hsieh said. “The patients looked after by migrant caregivers were all safely evacuated.”    [FULL  STORY]