Saturday, August 28, 2010

Cambodian girl with swollen arm arrives in Taiwan for operation

By Lee Chun-chin, Hau Hsue-chin and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Aug. 28 (CNA) - A two-year-old Cambodian girl suffering from massive swelling in her right arm arrived at Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) in central Taiwan Saturday for treatment.

Reachny Mich, whose condition has been described as having an "elephant arm, " was discovered by a Taiwanese medical team when it was in Cambodia in April to provide local residents free medical services.

She then obtained the promise of Taiwan government's to treat her after Yu Tsi-hsun, a volunteer on the medical team, made repeated appeals on her behalf.
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