Dignity?

 

I looked at my case notes again, as I compared it to what I observed to be reality. This was a referral from the local Member of Parliament, one of those we had to respond to urgently. Feelings of urgency were usually subjective; subjective to who observed the urgency, subjective to what this person was feeling when he felt this urgency. I flitted with a joke that the report writer from the Meet the People session was probably suffering from a bad bout of gas, before going back to the task at hand. 

"Old man with one leg selling tissue paper at the hawker centre. Looks like he has financial problem. Please assist, and make sure he gets the help he wants, so that he does not have to be in the streets." was the monotone message invoked by the referral.