Homemede ventilator of bicycle and washing machine parts
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:10 am
Goddam, that's brutally genius. But WTF. Brutal.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/t ... 5805260710
Teenager Ji Xiaoyan kept alive with a bicycle and washing machine
A TEENAGE girl lived on a ventilator made from a washing machine and bicycle when her family couldn't pay for a hospital bed.
Ji Xiaoyan, 15, was taken off her ventilator and discharged from hospital in China as her family could no longer afford to pay her medical bills, The Associated Press reports.
Not to be deterred, however, her family made her a makeshift ventilator from bicycle and washing machine parts, driven by a noisy electric motor. The contraption pumped air into the teenager's lungs through a washer hose plugged into an incision in her throat for more than a month, until the family got donations for treatment.
"I knew my child didn't want to leave this world. We had to save her no matter what," Yang Yunhua, the girl's mother, a farmer in Henan province, told AP. "But we are only poor people."
They were finally able to raise the almost $24,000 needed to treat her for a rare neurological disorder that paralyzed her from the neck down, AP said.
Her father, a teacher, earns only $150 a month, so family and friends contributed most of the rest.
Ji has since recovered partial use of her limbs and no longer needs a ventilator to breathe.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/t ... 5805260710
Teenager Ji Xiaoyan kept alive with a bicycle and washing machine
A TEENAGE girl lived on a ventilator made from a washing machine and bicycle when her family couldn't pay for a hospital bed.
Ji Xiaoyan, 15, was taken off her ventilator and discharged from hospital in China as her family could no longer afford to pay her medical bills, The Associated Press reports.
Not to be deterred, however, her family made her a makeshift ventilator from bicycle and washing machine parts, driven by a noisy electric motor. The contraption pumped air into the teenager's lungs through a washer hose plugged into an incision in her throat for more than a month, until the family got donations for treatment.
"I knew my child didn't want to leave this world. We had to save her no matter what," Yang Yunhua, the girl's mother, a farmer in Henan province, told AP. "But we are only poor people."
They were finally able to raise the almost $24,000 needed to treat her for a rare neurological disorder that paralyzed her from the neck down, AP said.
Her father, a teacher, earns only $150 a month, so family and friends contributed most of the rest.
Ji has since recovered partial use of her limbs and no longer needs a ventilator to breathe.