surgery for children
A TODDLER with severe brain damage whose parents had asked for him to be allowed to die will today undergo surgery at a Shanghai children’s hospital. Charity organizations rallied round when they heard ...
Cai Wenjun and Zhang Ningning | January 30, 2015, Friday
A one-and-a-half year old boy had 9-hour surgery to save his right after it had become stuck in an escalator at a shopping mall in Hubei Province, Changjiang Daily reported today. The boy’s hand got wedged ...
Deng Kajia | January 28, 2015, Wednesday
A 9-day-old baby underwent emergency surgery on Christmas Eve to save her left hand after her parents tied an elastic band around her wrist to keep a mitten in place. Doctors at Xinhua Hospital said they ...
Cai Wenjun | January 13, 2015, Tuesday
A TEAM of volunteers fluent in the Tibetan language was on hand at Shanghai Children’s Hospital yesterday to welcome a group of 15 youngsters from the southwest region who are soon to undergo heart surgery. ...
Cai Wenjun | September 26, 2014, Friday
SHANGHAI doctors will tomorrow attempt to separate 10-month-old conjoined twin girls. Doctors from the Shanghai Children’s Medical Center said that ideally the operation should have taken place some months ...
Cai Wenjun | July 15, 2014, Tuesday
A SHANGHAI benefactor has donated 100,000 yuan (US$16,129) so that a baby from a poor family in Gansu Province can receive treatment for spina bifida at a local hospital. Yet the woman, identified only ...
Cai Wenjun and Zhou Ailing | July 9, 2014, Wednesday