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Thursday, 24 Dec 2020 08:39 AM MYT
BY ASHMAN ADAM
Khaidir has been diagnosed with dermatomyositis, a rare autoimmune disease with a 50 per cent survival rate. Picture via GoFundMe
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 Malaysian construction engineer Khaidir Abu Jalil, 34, was recently dubbed the “loneliest man” at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney after six months went by without him receiving a single visitor.
According to Australia’s
, Khaidir suffers from a rare autoimmune disease with a 50 per cent survival rate.
He does not know anyone in Australia his family is in Malaysia nor does he own a phone or have internet access.
Janie Barrett/Sydney Morning Herald
Khaidir Abu Jali, 34, being treated at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre in St Vincentâs Hospital where he is receiving treatment for MDA5, a rare and severe autoimmune disease.
He is known as the “loneliest man” in Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital, a place where many people experience the worst moments in their lives. In the six months that Malaysian construction engineer Khaidir Abu Jalil, 34, has been hospitalised for a rare autoimmune disease with a 50 per cent survival rate, he hasn’t had a single visitor. He knows nobody, not even a friend of a friend. His family lives in Malaysia, and don’t own a phone or have the internet at home.