Suami sakit, isteri pula tuntut cerai

Semah dan Mohamed Noor menjaga dan menguruskan segala keperluan Abd Manas yang terlantar di rumah mereka di Kampung Tualang Rendah, Selising.

PASIR PUTEH - Sudah jatuh ditimpa tangga, itulah ungkapan yang menggambarkan nasib malang menimpa seorang pemuda yang terlantar sakit sejak enam bulan lalu, sebelum isterinya menuntut cerai tanpa alasan munasabah.

Abd Manas Mohamed Noor, 31, yang diserang penyakit jantung dan lumpuh kini bergantung harap kepada kedua orang tuanya yang dihimpit kemiskinan.

Akibat penyakit itu, dia pernah koma selama hampir sebulan kini mengalami kekejangan otot, selain tidak sedarkan diri untuk tempoh tertentu.

Lebih menyayat hati, apabila dalam keadaan begitu, isterinya yang berusia 40 tahun dikatakan tidak sanggup berkongsi derita lalu mengambil keputusan pulang ke negeri asal, Pulau Pinang bersama anak tunggal berusia lima tahun selepas menuntut cerai daripadanya.

Abd Manas dari Kampung Tualang Rendah dekat sini, pernah bekerja sebagai pemandu lori di kedai alat pembinaan tetapi terpaksa berhenti kerana penyakit yang ditanggungnya.

Dia dimasukkan ke Hospital Tengku Anis (HTA) sebelum dirujuk ke Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab (HRPZ), Kota Bharu pada 16 Mei lalu, dalam keadaan koma untuk mendapatkan rawatan lanjut.

Selama 28 hari, tidak menampakkan tanda dia akan sembuh dan akhirnya pada 14 Jun lalu, Abd Manas `diminta’ pulang ke rumah oleh pihak hospital dalam keadaan tengkuknya masih berlubang dibaluti tiup plastik.

Kini dia terlantar di rumah dengan hanya sekali sekala dikunjungi kakitangan perubatan untuk memberi rawatan susulan.

Ibunya, Semah Awang Deraman, 55, berkata, dia bersama suami, Mohamed Noor Ibrahim, 62, dan anak-anak lain terpaksa menjaganya walaupun mereka dihimpit kemiskinan.

Menurut Semah, tiada apa yang mampu dilakukan keluarganya sekarang bagi mengubati penyakit yang dialami Abd Manas, selain memberikan kasih sayang.

“Makcik dah tak tahu nak buat macam mana, hanya kasih sayang yang dapat makcik berikan, dia sepatutnya dijaga isteri tapi apa nak buat, nasib malang terus menimpanya.

“Kami pernah berikhtiar dengan mendapatkan khidmat pakar perubatan tradisional, selain tidak putus berdoa tapi ia juga belum menunjukkan tanda-tanda dia akan sembuh," katanya.

Katanya, walaupun Abd Manas menerima bantuan orang kelainan upaya RM300 sebulan daripada Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat, ia hanya meringankan sedikit bebanan ditanggung.

Semah berkata, selain perbelanjaan keluarga, mereka terpaksa menyediakan keperluan Abd Manas seperti bekalan susu, ubat-ubatan serta lampin pakai buang dan jika terdesak, mereka terpaksa meminjam duit jiran.

Shark attack kills teenager in Australia

SYDNEY:  A teenager died after being attacked by a shark in Australia on Saturday, police said, one week after a surfer was fatally mauled in the nation's west.

New South Wales police said they were called to Campbells Beach near Coffs Harbour, about 450 kilometres (280 miles) north of Sydney, after reports of a shark attack.

"A man, believed to be aged 18, was body boarding with friends around 100 metres off shore when he was bitten on the legs by what is believed to be a shark," police said in a statement.

"His friends managed to get him to the beach where he was treated by paramedics. He was pronounced dead a short time later."

An ambulance spokeswoman said the victim had severe leg injuries, but he is understood to have died from a traumatic cardiac arrest following the attack.

Police said the boy was sitting upright on his boogie board off secluded Riecks Point when he was bitten on both legs.

"A struggle has taken place and he has managed to break free," Coffs Harbour police inspector Joanne Reid told Sky News. "It has taken a bit of time to get him to shore and he lost a fair amount of blood on the way."

She commended his friends for going to his aid and bringing him to shore.

"It's just a tragic, tragic incident," she said.

Locals said the sharks were rarely seen in the area and incident had shocked the community.

The death comes just a week after a 35-year-old surfer was killed by a shark near Gracetown, about 270 kilometres south of the Western Australian city of Perth.

Sharks are common in Australian waters but deadly attacks are rare, with only one of the average 15 incidents a year typically proving fatal.

Until last week there had not been a fatality since July 2012 when a surfer was bitten in half off the coast of Western Australia, capping an unprecedented spate of five deadly attacks by the marine predators that sparked calls in that state for a cull.

AFP