Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-22
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
A quadruple amputee picked up where he left off about a year ago and went back to his old profession 
of teaching in a university on Wednesday.
National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) business administration assistant professor Wang Chih-yuan went on a mountain climbing trip to Taitung and Yilan in eastern Taiwan in Sept. last year. He felt sick during the trip and had a fever when he came back to Kaohsiung. He was treated at the emergency unit of a local hospital, but was found to have conditions of pulmonary infiltration, septic shock and multiple organ failure. He was intubated and transferred to an intensive care unit that night. The next day, the hospital informed Wang’s family that he was in critical condition. Soon after that Wang underwent dialysis treatment for acute kidney failure.
Wang’s students even took turn to keep him company in the hospital. He eventually survived and gradually got better, but he suffered from necrosis of the limbs. Wang was transferred to Cheng Hsin General Hospital in Taipei, where he had all four of his limbs amputated in November. [FULL STORY]
