Sorry for the double post...
Did a little bit of digging and it would appear that he was in a fire. This is one of the sites I came across. It's not in English:
http://qktx007.blog.163.com/blog/sta...1083103812507/
Roughly translated via Google Translate. I highlighted the important parts:
The high-profile town is Meitan County, Guizhou Province, a class of poverty-stricken town, and Yang Village is a class of poverty-stricken village in the town. Village poor children left behind Lin Yong, male, 13 years old, fourth-grade students in Yang Zhuang. September 9, 1999, a fire would be clever and cute little Lin Yong burned beyond recognition, and also burned his house all real estate furniture. That year, under the care of the X's in the help of donations of all relatives, friends and well-meaning people, spending nearly 13 million, after two years, Zunyi Medical College to save the life of Lin Yong, because of poverty, his parents in the forest Wing head of the burn does not heal, forced to take him discharged home with earthworks heal, during which the head is not cured gradually began to fester, since then he lost a clever face and a smart eight fingers. Usually small Yong-grandmother on this side of gauze for its "dressing" festering brain ...
Although his hands were burned only one finger, small Yong-in the hospital also did not forget their homework.
Independence refers to handwriting into "Thank you, thank you" is a small Lin Yong put up a sentence for good people went to visit him in hospital ......
Small Yong-and not so pessimistic, still strong and optimistic to go to school, and good grades. 2 times drop out of school in these six years of his education, experience, even dropping out of school at home, he often asked the neighbors to students to teach him to read, he go to school again, even though the head is always a large area of ulceration with, but he is very sensible, often in schools doing good deeds, he said he obtained the many contributions of teachers and students should be thankful; He was not only strong enough to persist in learning, after school, but also the mountains firewood, cattle grazing, he hopes to help his parents pay off the debt of all the friends and relatives at an early date . While his parents left home to go to Guangdong, Tianjin, trying desperately to earn money has still saddled with more than 60,000 yuan debt. Yong-scalp more than one year collapse, now has festered all head and forehead, appalling! When I saw him, he is still in for Grandma cattle. I was stunned on the spot three minutes speechless - this is the poor children left the sufferance you?
When the doctor will head gauze layers peeled off, I was completely shocked! See the scene I do not know what to describe, I can only use the horrible words to express feelings at where this is a 13-year-old child can withstand great pain! See a doctor peeled off the gauze, I saw small Yong-in pain, convulsions, even the hum. Skinny body, as I understand it is a living body function failure.
Obviously, the condition is more than just admission, skull, brain years of festering brain tissue spill out a lot, to be honest, shoot pictures are very bear. But far in the field of well-intentioned people able to grasp the condition of the small Yong-in detail, had this shocking photo to complete. According to doctors, because of years of brain skull rotten powder, brain tissue has been out overflow! Local hospitals simply can not, according to the doctor's words, their lives very difficult to guarantee. I can drag the Spring Festival, the doctor said it was difficult! Guiyang Brain Hospital, the doctor came Meitan around 11:30 last night from Guiyang small Yong-consultation, the following is a hospital pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Zhou Qiang Yong-diagnoses:
The amount of temporal-parietal scalp and skull of a large area of defect, the brain tissue (frontal temporal-parietal) exposed, the exposed part of the liquefaction necrosis of brain tissue, the entire exposed brain tissue pus fetal attachment, and the stench, the outflow of cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid, yellow, sticky, cranial infection in the wound skin around the abnormal proliferation of red, children showed extreme exhaustion, light coma, eyes, conjunctival hyperemia, and purulent secretions.
At this time, I am not understanding if he is still alive. I'm too tired to read properly.
