The three Vietnamese brides who were found wandering the streets of Fuzhou City, China after being abandoned by their husbands’ families and are now staying at a mental hospital have been granted passports to return to Vietnam.

>> 3 Vietnamese brides at China madhouse to repatriate soon >> 3 Vietnamese brides in China now at madhouse On Wednesday, Hoang Ngoc Vinh, Minister Resident of the Vietnamese Embassy in China, said that all procedures necessary for repatriating the three Vietnamese women, Mai Thi Nai, 47, Trinh Thi Hoa, 27, and To Thi Ha, 23, have been completed. Nai is a native of the northern city of Hai Phong, while both Ha and Hoa are from northern Bac Giang province. The women, who all married Chinese men several years ago, were found wandering the streets of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, separately, all speaking only the two words “Viet Nam.” As they showed signs of mental illness, police took them to the Fuzhou Mental Hospital in Fujian province. After making verifications, the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing have handed the passports it has granted for the three women to the Fujian police. Local police have informed the embassy that they will buy train tickets for the women and assigned staff to escort them on a train to the border of China and Vietnam, where concerned Vietnamese agencies will receive the women and take them to their families. The police will inform the embassy of the specific time for the expatriation. However, the embassy has suggested that the police send the women back to Vietnam before the coming Tet (lunar New Year), which will fall on January 31, 2014, and the police have promised to do so. The head of the hospital’s Therapeutic Department told Tuoi Tre that all three women are in good health.

They have spoken on the phone with their relatives and are very excited to return to Vietnam, the department’s head said. The families of the women are also very happy to reunite with them after such a long separation.Pitiful plights As previously reported, Ha, the youngest of the three, was found in mid 2011 on a street in Fujian, showing signs of mental illness. Ha was taken to the local hospital and during her first year there, she was always shy and only spoke the two words “Viet Nam.” In July 2012, police found Nai wandering the streets naked. The nude woman suffered from even more severe mental problems than Ha. Like Ha, Nai only spoke the two words “Viet Nam.” Nai was later arranged to stay in the same room with Ha. The two women gradually began speaking with each other in Vietnamese and their mental conditions began to improve. In early 2013, Hoa was also found wandering the streets of the province. Like Ha and Nai, Hoa could only speak the words “Viet Nam.” After meeting Ha and Nai, Hoa recovered her ability to speak  and was able to talk about herself. Ha, who has leg and arm malformations, married a deaf Chinese man in early 2011. Ha said her husband’s family often beat her because she could not do hard labor due to her physical disabilities. They later drove her out on the street empty-handed. Meanwhile, Hoa said that she was lured to China and sold to a Chinese man five years ago.  Compared to Hoa and Ha, Nai has suffered the most from mental problems, doctors say. Nai only remembers that she had been lured to China many years ago and became the wife of many men before being driven out to the streets.