Tens of Thousands of Children in China Go Deaf Annually Due to Unsafe Drugs

[TomSea]

Tens of Thousands of Children in China Go Deaf Annually Due to Unsafe Drugs
A PSA commercial by China's state-run television reveals a startling reality By Frank Fang, Epoch Times    |  November 27, 2016 AT 3:17 PM Last Updated: November 27, 2016 3:17 pm

In a public announcement, China’s state-run television CCTV has a simple message to parents: children are not miniatures of adults when it comes to taking medication. The video, however, fails to point out the root cause behind the problem.

The three-minute video consists of five-year-old deaf girl named Fu Xinuo making hand signs into the camera, with subtitles in Chinese. At the beginning of the video, the happy-looking Fu says that her parents told her that she could start calling them “mom” and “dad” when she was one year old, and she would “jump up and down” when hearing music. Then, Fu begins to tear up slowly as she gestures how her hearing slowly deteriorated because of improper medication for a fever three years ago.

“Mom, I am afraid, I am afraid to play with other children,” read the subtitles.

“Sometimes I get angry and throw stuff on the floor,” the subtitles continue as Xi cries. “It’s not that I don’t behave. I just that I want to speak to you, mom, but I am too anxious to say any words.”

Continued: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2190993-tens-of-thousands-of-children-in-china-go-deaf-annually-due-to-unsafe-drugs/

[Free Vulcan]

China doesn't care. You could eliminate half a billion people there, and the other billion would simply say 'Great, more room for the rest of us.'

Not quite the value of life there as here.