BATU PAHAT: Miracle girl Tee Hui Yi, who underwent a double heart transplant in 2007, has died. The 19-year-old, who had survived with a mechanical heart before the two transplants, died at the Batu Pahat Hospital at 10.02am Tuesday – the day she…
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Facebook gets behind lung transplant recipient's donor campaign
An organ donation campaign started by a feisty young Ottawa double-lung transplant recipient now has new friends — a lot of them. Facebook is hoping its organ donation tool, which allows users to share their status as organ donors, will help Helene Ca…
Facebook, double-lung transplant recipient makes push for organ donors
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Local teenager awaiting kidney transplant
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Lung transplant recipient now has Facebook behind her organ donor campaign
OTTAWA – An organ donation campaign started by a feisty young Ottawa double-lung transplant recipient now has new friends â a lot of them. Facebook is hoping its organ donation tool, which allows users to share their status as organ donors, will help …