Lung transplant surgeon performs extra duties

Unlike other national legislators who were busy preparing for the opening of the annual session of the top legislature, Chen Jingyu, a leading lung transplant surgeon, had additional duties to perform.

On Saturday, Chen, a deputy to the National People's Congress from Jiangsu province, conducted a six-hour lung transplant for a man suffering bilateral bronchiectasis and respiratory failure at China-Japan Friendship Hospital.

One day earlier, he performed a transplant for a woman who suffered from serious pulmonary fibrosis. Both transplants were successful.