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Leper Hospital
The Leper Hospital - has become a tourist attraction and visitors are welcome (for a small entrance fee) and
you can also enjoy the beach. As it usually goes with leprosy colonies, it is highly unusual to see this. ....... but rather a depressing place is a kind of model village at the coast, where the treated patients can live on with their families in a small, well-kept houses. If someone had leper, he was referred to this village in Quy Nhon. When the patients were nursed and healed, they were allowed to live and work in the village. Depending on the abilities that they have, they could work in the rice fields, in the fishery, and repair-oriented companies and small shops. One of these shops is well known, because it's selling and repairing prostheses and special shoes. The leper colony is a neat collection of buildings all enclosed and close to the beach. It's surrounded by the houses of former patients who now have a decent life.
The hospital grounds are so well maintained that it almost looks like a retirement home. You can visit this hospital daily from 08:00 to 16:00 hours. Over the years, many prominent and important doctors have worked in this hospital. These historic physicians (both Vietnamese and foreign) has been busts placed along the path to the beach. The leper colony is situated along the beach (Queen's Beach), which is clean and sometimes crowded on weekends by the locals. The Vietnamese name is Quy Hoa Beach, named after a queen. Quy Hoa was the wife of the last emperor of Vietnam: Boa Dai.
Han Mac Tu is a poet, who died very young. The cause of death of the poet is undoubtedly leprosy. He grew up in a poor family and lost his father when he was young. He began at an early age to write poetry and he found soon the necessary appreciation and that encouraged him to go on. In 1937 he got leprosy and was eventually incorporated in September 1940 in the hospital, where he would die two months later.
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