CHIANG RAI, Thailand: After a traumatic ordeal in the heart of a dark, flooded mountain cave, the 12 boys rescued from Thailand and their young football coach will face a new challenge: Fame.
16, will spend at least a week at the hospital and a month at home, according to health officials, after a daring rescue of the Tham Luang cave complex in Chiang Rai province, north of the country.
The world is watching, "said Kham-oey Promthep, 64-year-old grandmother of Duangpetch Promthep, 13, or Dom, 13, captain of the football team" Wild " Boars & # 39;
"He was trapped in a cave. everyone in the country and all over the world had to come and help them: what should we give them in return? Kham-oey told Reuters
"We have nothing, so he must be a good boy."
They are already facing the pressure of growing expectations.
The head of the SEAL diving team of the Thai Navy involved in their rescue urged the boys to make the most of their lives and to "be a force for the well. "
Global attention to their fate and multinational rescue put the region firmly on the map. "Despite the increased interest and pressure, boys need to live as normally as possible," said Dr. Andrea Danese of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King & # 39; s College London. 19659002] "The boys need to return to their normal lives, to their daily routine, in order to fully appreciate that the threat is over," said Danese, who heads the laboratory's stress and development lab. ;institute.
to 20 percent of boys may develop longer-term psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha asked that we give boys time and personal space to recover. "The best way is to not disturb them and let them study," he told reporters this week
"PARASITES".
Thai authorities have prevented world media from camping in cafes and street corners. Rai, after questioning the boys, and with good reason, said Danese.
"A careful review of the media could recall their traumatic experience and prevent them from returning to a normal life," he said. Hollywood is already telling it, with two production companies looking to collect movies about boys and their daring rescue.
Eight years ago, 33 gold miners had spent 69 days underground in San Jose. One of the miners, Jorge Galleguillos, told Reuters that the parents of the cave boys should make sure that they have no unaccompanied contact with lawyers or reporters.
A film starring Antonio Banderas and titled "The 33" produced i n consultation with minors – who sue their own lawyers as a result of a dispute over the film's profits.
Two of the accused lawyers told Reuters that the charge was "without substance".
parasites will want that they sign rights to books, to movies, "said Galleguillos." It is dangerous, after all that has happened, that you become a world celebrity and that everyone wants something
For now, families are focusing on the immediate relief of being reunited with their loved ones.I do not know how it will cope (with attention) ", said Yes-pan Sompiengjai, 66, grandmother of Pheeraphat Sompiengjai, 16 years old.
"I'm just happy that he came out of the cave"
(Additional reportage by Aislinn Laing in SANTIAGO and Panu Wongcha-um in CHIANG RAI, edited by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Darren Schuettler) [19659023] (function (d, s, id) {Source link
