6. Siblings warded after eating soil

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/31/nation/6371638&sec=nation

Four siblings,undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit, after allegedly ate soil for a week due to stave of hunger. The four siblings aged seven, eight, nine. and ten were admitted to Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital, after they caught the attention of Jerai MIC chairman R. Supramaniam. The girls are conditionally stable but have to be warded for a week for further inspection on their health.The father of the four siblings, 30 years old, is unemployed and they are relying on donated food and even the food donated is insufficient for the whole family.

This news is a lesson for all kinds of people. We have to be successful in life so that our family members would not have to suffer and live in poverty. Poverty could cause a lot of problems. One of it,as mentioned above, health problems. The biggest problem the society feared is that poverty could contribute to the increasing number of criminal