KUALA LUMPUR: Tee Hui Yi is stable and stronger now and her condition is better than a day earlier.
Heart Transplant co-ordinator Noorsalina Othman said Hui Yi was more alert now and was being fed through a tube.
“She has also moved her arms and legs.
“She can talk but without any sound because there is a tube inserted in her mouth,” said Noorsalina on behalf of Dr Mohamed Ezani Md Taib, the heart and lung transplant unit clinical director at the National Heart Institute yesterday.
Hui Yi was still in critical condition and would be warded in the Intensive Care Unit for a few more days, she said.
Aside from doctors and nurses looking after Hui Yi, no visitors were allowed except for her parents Dina Bato Asam Bua and Tee Ah Soon who could look in for a few minutes, twice a day.
On Oct 4, Hui Yi received a heart from a 15-year-old boy diagnosed to be brain dead but soon after the operation her body started rejecting it.
The next day, she got the heart of a 20-year-old mechanic who was declared brain dead after a road accident in Johor Baru.
This article was originally published in theStar Online.
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