Miracle-performing baby attracts thousands seeking his healing and they have a plane too..

Kong Keng, a 2-year-old kid from Khnor village in Cambodia, is being hailed as a miracle baby with special healing powers.  Thousands of people are traveling from as far as Laos and Vietnam, believing that even a glimpse of Kong will help cure them of their ailments
He appears to be the last ray of hope in a nation that doesn’t exactly have the world’s best healthcare system. Hundreds of people throng outside Kong’s single-room wooden home every single day. It’s a motley crowd of handicapped people in wheelchairs, and ailing, dying patients on stretchers. Phat Soen, Kong’s 21-year-old mother, brings the boy out and places a row of eucalyptus balm bottles in front of him. She then guides his hand over each bottle – his touch is believed to transfer healing powers to the balm.

“The miracle happened to my brother,” said Sung Bahn, Kong’s uncle. “He was paralysed from the waist down after a motorcycle accident. Doctors couldn’t cure him and neither could the Kru Khmers (traditional Cambodian healers).” “He went to visit his nephew and the boy asked him, ‘What’s the matter?’ The man told him that he couldn’t walk, so the boy found some leaves to make into a tea for the old man to drink.

 He drank the tea, got up, and began walking perfectly.” Naturally, such a miraculous event couldn’t remain a secret for long – the whole village was buzzing about it, and within two weeks the story was covered by national newspapers and TV channels.   effective treatment   “Twenty thousand people have come here in the last month hoping to be cured,” said village chief Sou Hen. “Over 1,000 people have received effective treatment from the magic boy so far. I have seen people who were dumb speak, and others who were paralyzed get up and walk.”   Kong is now practically royalty in the sleepy little village of Khnor.
 “Most people have to wait, but he got some right away because he is the governor,” said Hean Tuk, the governor’s companion.  Unfortunately, not everyone is that lucky – some people have been waiting for as long as nine days for a cure. Naturally, the more scientifically inclined people in Cambodia are trashing the idea of the magic boy. But it’s easy to see why the boy has become so popular across the nation. “Cambodian religion believes that spirits can possess people,” said Dr. Jonathan HX Lee, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.  “Illness is experienced as being possessed by a spirit, and that’s why therapy would require some kind of religious ritual.” The leaves might be free of cost, but a meeting with the Kong himself isn’t. “If they want to see the boy personally, we charge them $2 or $3,” said Bahn.