You always say that the ruthless and complex society makes you numb and you live like a "living dead" every day, but have you really seen a living dead?
The heavy topic we are going to talk about today is only three words: Vegetative!
Vegetatives refer to a special human state where is very similar to the living state of plants. Due to various factors, patients with have not only retained some instinctive neuroreflexes, perform substances and ability to metabolize substances, but also have completely lost their cognitive ability of their existence. has no active activity, so this state is also called: vegetatives;
However, 's brain stem of still has functions, which can transport nutrients to the patient's body, and the patient's body can digest and absorb, and can use these abilities to maintain the basic metabolism of the body. includes breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure.
At the same time, the patient's body will also produce some instinctive reflexes, such as coughing, sneezing, yawning, etc., but his body no longer has consciousness, perception and death, as well as the advanced neural activities that humans have.
Related data surveys show that has at least 500,000 vegetable people in my country, and is increasing rapidly at a rate of 70,000 to 100,000 people per year. They are scattered all over the country, some lying on the beds of various hospitals, a very small number of patients have entered private care institutions, while more patients are slowly waiting and dying at home, and are considered to be living dead people with no value for survival.
Vegetatives not only bring harm and pain to the patient themselves, but also a triple torture from the physical, physiological and economic aspects of the patient. On the one hand, the patient's brain did not die, and the family could not give up a relative with vital signs and chose to ignore it. They were looking forward to the arrival of a miracle!
But on the other hand, long-term clinical care, hopeless future, huge money spending, disrupted life and work are all tortures the family.
Presentment with pain and hope is a common mentality among many vegetative relatives!
Although there is now vegetative awakening treatment, which is the so-called neuroregulatory treatment, this is a relatively effective treatment method in the world.
However, in my country, there are less than 10 departments specifically for vegetative travel, which is far from enough to meet the needs of Chinese vegetatives . Not all vegetatives can undergo neurological regulation surgery, and the treatment costs are quite a few. The surgery cost is about 200,000 yuan, and the basic monthly cost has reached nearly 30,000 yuan;
So many families of vegetative patients pin their hopes on "vegetative foster care institution" , that is, institutions provide basic medical and life care for vegetatives, so that patients can go through the last journey of their lives naturally, calmly and dignified. In a vegetable foster care institution in my country, the monthly fee is about 8,000 yuan.
In most cases, for vegetatives, the ultimate destination is to return to the family and wait for death.
Written at the end: Vegetatives also have the right to life and health. With the continuous progress of the future society, the vegetative groups will become larger and larger. I hope that in the future, we can provide relevant policy basis and institutional guarantees for the vegetative groups based on the particularity and special needs of vegetatives, and mobilize more to help the vegetative groups and reduce the burden on the vegetative families.
