It is no secret that Bali has known as a paradise island with thousand temples. But many here believe now that the paradise is getting closer to a hell. A 48 years old divorce woman with three children suffering mental illness for 12 years left untreated in the family compound with inhumane condition. She had her meal together with her faces and urine that never been clean nor any medication has been administered to her body. The department of health and social welfare tried to go blind and deaf with this situation. In an island that wash with tourists dollars, everybody feel this is the paradise island without ever consider that around 9000 residence suffering chronic mental disorders and left untreated in the community.
“I feel so upset to see the reality that inside a luxurious building and temple were hide an inhumane condition, the animal seems to have a better life here that the human itself”, said Professor Luh Ketut Suryani after discovered the tragic situation of an woman nearly died in vain. Professor Suryani and her team has to went for many calls before they finally managed to find ambulance escorting the patient to general hospital near by.
“Our government are too busy for political agenda and saving their position instead of helping the reality to be a better condition”, add Professor Suryani after forcing the family to allow her taking the patient to hospital. With many five stars hotels and business established in Bali none of them trying to help bringing the mental situation into a better one. The soul to help each other become only a lips service for the island that put the concept of menyama braya in a high position.