Saturday Express
Saturday Express: Chinese man kept alive by self-built dialysis machine─── 13:38 Sat, 28 Jul 2018
In perhaps the most desperate display of Chinese ingenuity yet, a 43-year-old man has been kept alive for 13 years by a home-made kidney dialysis machine.
Hu Songwen was studying to be a meteorologist in Nanjing when he was diagnosed with renal failure in 1993.
For six years, he paid a visit every few days to his local hospital to have his blood cleansed by dialysis. But each visit cost him £50 and the years of treatment exhausted his family's savings.
In 1999, he decided to build his own machine using kitchen equipment, medical parts and a textbook.