The applicant is a family of three, with parents and sons living in subdivided housing units. The mother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer earlier this year, which spread to the lymph nodes, and was also found to have breast cancer in March this year.
The applicant has undergone tumor resection and a series of cancer treatments in a public hospital.
The father has always been the sole breadwinner of the family, but due to his wife's serious illness, the father had to applied for a month of unpaid leave to take care of the family. Coupled with the medical expenses required for the treatment, this family was under severe financial pressure, and the family felt very hesitant while their income decreased and their savings had to be used.
