UK MEDICAL STUDENT GOES MISSING
Ho Zheng Han has been unreachable after taking a year’s break from studies
THE parents of 24-yearold medical student Ho Zheng Han are worried as the youth has remained incommunicado for the past year after taking a year’s break from studies in the United Kingdom.
Ho Seng Yeow, and his wife Choong Yoke Chun, both 55, only wish their son would tell them that he was all right.
They are worried after Zheng Han’s immigration records showed he entered Malaysia a few times through the border checkpoint at the Causeway.
Zheng Han, who is from Kulai, is a third-year medical student under a Public Service Department (PSD) scholarship at University of Cambridge.
Seng Yeow said he contacted PSD when he was unable to call his son after trying for a month.
He was informed by PSD in September last year that his son, who was the elder of two boys, had applied for a year’s break from studies.
They sought help from PSD, which lodged a police report on their behalf in Putrajaya on Oct 26 last year.
“The PSD gave permission for my son to defer his studies for one year between September 2016 and August 2017.
“Even though he informed his university and PSD, he did not inform his family. Maybe he did not want us to get worried.
Seng Yeow said on Oct 3 last year, the PSD received information that his son had entered Malaysia through the Sultan Iskandar Building Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex here.
Similar records of his movement were found as recently as Aug 10, which fuelled Seng Yeow’s suspicion that his son may be working in Singapore to fend for himself.
“We tried contacting his friends but they claimed not to know where Zheng Han is.”
The youth’s parents sought help from Johor MCA Government Coordinating Affairs chairman Michael Tay Chee Boon.
“Hopefully, Zheng Han’s friends can help persuade him to contact his parents,” he said yesterday.
Choong said her son was a straight As student who knew how to take care of himself.
Having scored nine As in his Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia when he studied at SMK Bandar Putra, Kulai, he continued to do well in his A-Levels before receiving a scholarship to study medicine.
“Before he stopped contacting us, I would talk to him on Skype once every two or three weeks.
“We’d talk for 15 to 20 minutes each time and he never told us of any problem.
“I miss him very much and we are worried about his wellbeing.”