Wedding proposal by a 6YO patient in Bor, Sudan South to Dr Shannon Chan | Animation | English

Dr Shannon Chan is a surgeon from Hong Kong and was sent to Bor, South Sudan for her first mission in late 2016. Her very unforgettable memory with her 6-year-old patient was turned into an animation.

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Wedding proposal by a 6YO patient in Bor, South Sudan to Dr Shannon Chan

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF214006

Date taken / Date Recorded 08/08/2017 12:00 AM

Country South Sudan

Commissioning section MSF-HONG KONG

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m23s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1080px 92.28 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist 00:01
[Dr. Shannon Chan was sent to Bor, South Sudan ]

00:04
[for a frontline mission ]
[Bor, South Sudan]

00:06
[Somebody proposed to her for the first time!]

00:09
The first marriage proposal I got
Was in South Sudan

00:12
A six-year-old boy
suffered bone fracture

00:15
When he arrived at the hospital
his hand was swollen

00:19
He needed a surgery
To drain off fluid

00:21
[Surgery in progress]

00:22
And restore blood flow

00:24
Then he stayed in our hospital
for a long time

00:27
Since I like children very much
We hung out and got really close

00:32
[Discharge Day]

00:32
On the day he was discharged

00:33
He said he wanted to use
all 56 cows he owned
to propose to me

00:38
I didn’t understand
what he just said

00:41
But his words made
all the local staff laughed

00:44
and the patients too

00:46
I was touched by his gesture

00:48
Because he offered all his cows
to thank us
for mending his arm

00:54
But of course, I didn’t say yes
to the proposal!

00:57
We are very lucky
to grow up and live

01:01
in a prosperous city

01:03
And we should be
more concerned about

01:06
people and happenings
in war-torn countries
or the “third world”

Special instructions *This animation was produced by a Hong Kong new media company called Stakk, and was first published on their facebook page, therefore the watermark and logo at the end of the video cannot be taken away.