Parents work round the clock to keep son alive with ventilator
By Xu Junqian in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2013-01-30 07:24
Fu Xuepeng with the self-made ventilator, as his mother Wang Lanqin looks on. Fu's parents have kept their son alive for more than five years using the ventilator. Pan Kanjun / for China Daily |
Every time Fu Minzu presses down on the black, lightweight, PVC resuscitator bag, the 67-year-old farmer hopes the life of his son, who is connected to the bag with a plastic tube, will be prolonged for another few minutes.
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