Homemade ventilator reveals China medical woes
- Published: 1 Feb 2013 at 01.44
- Online news: Asia
Her coarse hands gripping a blue plastic ventilator she pumped by hand for years to keep her injured son alive, Wang Lanqin sits by her child's bed.
Wang Lanqin compresses a PVC resuscitator pump to help her son Fu Xuepeng, a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, to breathe and live on in their home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province on January 28, 2013.
Wang and her husband Fu Minzu took turns for years pumping the device to help their son Fu Xuepeng breathe, as they could not afford the fees for him to be cared for in hospital after he was paralysed in a motorbike crash.
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