AMPANG: “Aid, rehabilitation and counselling.”

These will be the focus of the authorities in helping victims and family members deal with the trauma of the Hulu Langat landslide that claimed 16 lives last Saturday.
“We will only discuss the issue of whether it (Rumah Anak Yatim Hidayah) was registered or not next week.

“We want to give all the help possible and counselling to victims and their families, especially those who have lost their loved ones,” Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said after visiting the survivors at the Ampang Hospital yesterday.

She said the victims and their families required time to overcome the physical, emotional and physiological trauma.

This includes prosthetic therapy for the two victims whose legs were amputated.

She said Welfare Department officers were gathering information to determine the status of the students of the home, which serves both as an orphanage and madrasah (religious school).

“Most of the students have been taken home by their respective families and relatives,” she said.

Earlier, Shahrizat accompanied Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's wife Puan Sri Norainee Abdul Rahman who visited the victims and families at the hospital.

Besides hampers and financial aid totalling RM2,000, she said Norainee had agreed to donate prosthetic legs to the amputees