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Military hospital to fund man's nose job
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-01-15 10:09

A military hospital will help a poor young man improve his tilted nose, and perhaps improve his social life, and boost his self-image.

The man, Feng Xiaojun, 19, is expected to undergo surgery at the No 193 hospital, run by the People's Liberation Army in Wuhan, Hubei province.

Feng has been searching the Internet for a hospital to perform the surgery for three years. He once sent letters to every major hospital in the central metropolis.

Feng, who is from a poor farmer's family, has stayed at home for three years ever since his nose began to tilt in the wake of a serious illness.