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Saturday Express: Chinese man kept alive by self-built dialysis machine

───   13:38 Sat, 28 Jul 2018

Saturday Express:  Chinese man kept alive by self-built dialysis machine  | News Article

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.

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 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. 



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