Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement (Valley Of Hope)

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  heritage lover (guest)

  MARA Technology University(UiTM), an institute born to Malay nationalism, has abolished the century-old east court of the Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement, on October 2007. Though the place has been evaluated and highly regarded by some heritage researchers as world heritage, UiTM vice-chancellor Datuk Seri Prof Dr Ibrahim Abu Shah said the buildings had no historical or heritage value. The heritage was torn down to build UiTM's medical faculty.

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  heritage lover (guest)

  Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement(SBLS), established on 15th August, 1930, is located at Selangor State, Peninsular Malaysia. It was the largest and most well equipped leprosy asylum and research center among the Commonwealth Countries of the British Colony. It was the idea of Dr. Travers, who proposed a policy of building up a “self-sustainable community”, on a Tropical Medicine Conference in Singapore, 1923, to improve the living conditions of those people who acquired leprosy. A green basin, 25km distant from Kuala Lumpur city, surrounded by forest and rivers, was then sought as an ideal place. The weather and environment was good enough to make a natural healthcare resort. According to Traver’s idea, though lepers was supposed to be quarantined by law, they should not be treated as prisoners. Thus, the community concept that he proposed was fenceless, catered for the physiological and psychological needs for the patients, so that the latter can live normal life in the leprosy settlement as they used to live in the outside world.

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  phonar

  it just so sad that the place i went there 10 years ago is been destroy by this stupid development. 10 years ago i really found here is a paradise for gardener and a sense of returning to the 60s-70s with everything surround this area is green. now the new widen road to the uitm had destroy this historical place, all the tree had been cut down, the village is getting smaller and less vendor selling flower compare to 10 years ago. it is a shame to Barisan National government

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  hashim (guest)

  Truly said, Leprosy Settlement in Sungai Buloh now is 'Rubbish' !

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