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Girl sold herself for mom: Dilemma of Internet charity
(Southern Metropolis Daily/zonaeu)
Updated: 2005-11-07 09:39 In the afternoon, a netizen posted on Sina.com: "Chen Yi's mother Yi Liangwei
has just passed away at Southwestern Hospital!" This news was confirmed. At 3pm
that afternoon, the hospital declared that Yi Liangwei's heart had stopped and
there was no more breathing.
It is still a mystery as to whether this operation was a medical necessity or
a decision made under the tremendous pressure of Internet opinion. On October
18, Yi Liangwei had no plans to treat her aneurysm. She was still talking to the
Tianjin expert about her second liver transplant. But on the afternoon of
October 20, she was lying on the operating table "readying to take care of the
aneurysm." As Yi Liangqiong said, "It occurred too 'suddenly'."
With the incomplete information, some doctors among the netizens reasoned
based upon the known information: "Ms. Yi was seriously ill and the cause of
death may be due to the operation itself. First, they could not remove the
blockage by the tumor on the artery. Then a second operation had to be performed
in order to remove the steel ring and there was massive bleeding afterwards.
This caused the already weakened body to fail." "... it was an accident."
According to the media reports, two liver specialists from Guangzhou diagnosed
that Yi Liangwei was already serious ill, and there are tremendous risks and low
probability of success with a second liver transplant. "Under normal
circumstances, we would have recommended the removal of the aneurysm."
Handouxiansheng analyzed the SMS that Chen Yi and her mother sent him: "She
was ultimately indecisive about using the donations that did not come from
Transplant city. She did not dare to touch that money, but she did not have
enough to go to Tianjin. So she took a chance and hoped that a miracle would
occur to show that it was not an aneurysm but just weakened arteries. Then she
can get a more conservative treatment instead of a second liver transplant."
"The problem of money is what drove her to take this path." But this was
inconsistent with the news on Xinhua Net. According to Xinhua Net, Yi Liangwei
had undergone the essential steps before any liver transplant -- the operation
on the portal vein thrombus -- but then she experienced multiple organ failures
arising from her liver problems. That is to say, this operation was essential if
she was going to have a second liver transplant.
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