When a family pillar falls hard

Fighting on: Tan lying in bed while his 33-year-old wife Lee Qiao Yin helps him with his medication at their home in Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, Johor Baru, as Ho looks on.

JOHOR BARU: Four years ago, Tan Gim Wai was earning a steady income to support his family. But today, he is bedridden and paralysed from the waist down.

The 36-year-old, who was then working as a supervisor at a bread factory, suffered a spinal injury while helping to carry heavy baking supplies during a staff shortage.