A critique circulating in National Taiwan University alumni groups questioning the Health Ministry opening a Taroko Express disaster donation account has a provocative direct title: “What Right Does the Health Ministry Have to Open a Donation Account?” The original author presented four points of questioning.
🧐 Four Points of Questioning Donation Necessity
- Shouldn’t injured people receive medical services and compensation from the responsible party?
- Shouldn’t deceased and injured people righteously receive insurance compensation from the responsible party?
- Don’t rescue personnel and affected families receive free accommodation from the Hualien Tourism Association?
- Shouldn’t Taiwan Railways itself bear facility repair and maintenance expenses?
So please tell the people, what donations does the Health Ministry still need to accept?
💸 Concern Donations Become Tools for Profiteering and Loss Compensation
If it’s going to be like some Gotham City gas explosion incident and create some nonsensical amount of money to create utterly useless art memorial installations, causing people to question whether it’s benefiting specific parties, sorry please pay yourselves, people won’t buy it anymore!
If it’s to supplement deficit losses and let the responsible Taiwan Railways fat cats keep getting full year-end bonuses, this time, people should wake up! Let the government bear its responsibility!
📢 Stern Question: Where Does Two-Thirds of Donations Go?
The Taroko Express incident isn’t a natural disaster, it’s human error, no disaster victims, only victims.
Yet when people give over a billion dollars in donations, apparently only one-third will go to victims, Health Ministry please explain clearly and speak plainly, the remaining two-thirds, up to billions of dollars in donations, what do you plan to do with them?!