A smile is reward enough


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 18 Jan 2004

A MAN in his late 50s cut a sad figure as he sat by a lamppost next to a drain at the entrance of the field hospital in Baravat, about 5km from Bam, Iran. 

After a while, he began to cry, and he covered his unshaven face with his hands as the tears flowed. Seeing this, a nurse working at the clinic run by Mercy Malaysia volunteers and Iranian medical personnel approached him and asked if she could help. 

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