People abandoned their sick families then regretted!

Establishing Good Practices
Xin Gongyi studied hard from the time he was young and cared about his people when he was an official. When Xin was governor of Minzhou, he discovered that many people were unwilling to look after sick family members for fear of becoming ill themselves. It was the case even between parents and children or husband and wife. That meant that many people who fell ill died unnecessarily.
Worried that people were losing their sense of kindness and their filial piety, Xin decided to do something about it. He sent lower officials to look for people who were sick and bring them to the hallway in his own home. He set up a bed for himself in the hallway and stayed with those who were ill from dawn to dusk while he worked. With his own money, Xin bought medicine and paid doctors to treat these patients. He also helped feed them. As a result, many of them recovered.
Xin then invited the patients’ families to come. “When people abandoned their sick family members in the past, the patients died. Now, I have brought them here and stayed with them every day. If taking care of those who are ill will make one sick, I would have been ill already,” he said. “But I am fine and the patients have recovered.”
With guilt in their hearts, the people thanked him and left with their recovered family members. After that, people began to care for each other more.
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