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31 de enero de 2013 - 07:26 a. m.

TOPSHOTS This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows Fu Xuepeng, a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, breathing with the aide of a home-made ventilator (R) while his mum Wang Lanqin (L) looks at him at their home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. According to state media, a local hospital has decided to help Fu's parents after reports that they have kept their son alive for more than five years using a hand pumped PVC resuscitator bag and a ventilator made by a local DIY expert. They took turns compressing their son's bag 24-hours a day, seven days a week, until they had someone making them a medical ventilator with a motor, a speed controller, a pushing bar and an air bag, which cost 200 yuan (32 USD). But to minimize the electricity bill, which adds up to 5 to 6 yuan a day if the machine is left running all day, the couple still compresses the bag by hand during the day and turns on the machine only at night. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows Wang Lanqin (L) compressing a PVC resuscitator pump to help her son Fu Xuepeng, a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, to breathe and live on in their home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. According to state media, a local hospital has decided to help Fu's parents after reports that they have kept their son alive for more than five years using a hand pumped PVC resuscitator bag and a ventilator made by a local DIY expert. They took turns compressing their son's bag 24-hours a day, seven days a week, until they had someone making them a medical ventilator with a motor, a speed controller, a pushing bar and an air bag, which cost 200 yuan (32 USD). But to minimize the electricity bill, which adds up to 5 to 6 yuan a day if the machine is left running all day, the couple still compresses the bag by hand during the day and turns on the machine only at night. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows Wang Lanqin (back) compressing a PVC resuscitator pump to help her son Fu Xuepeng, a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, to breathe and live on in their home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. According to state media, a local hospital has decided to help Fu's parents after reports that they have kept their son alive for more than five years using a hand pumped PVC resuscitator bag and a ventilator made by a local DIY expert. They took turns compressing their son's bag 24-hours a day, seven days a week, until they had someone making them a medical ventilator with a motor, a speed controller, a pushing bar and an air bag, which cost 200 yuan (32 USD). But to minimize the electricity bill, which adds up to 5 to 6 yuan a day if the machine is left running all day, the couple still compresses the bag by hand during the day and turns on the machine only at night. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows Fu Xuepeng, a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, breathing with the aide of a home-made ventilator (R) while his mother Wang Lanqin (L) feeds him at their home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. According to state media, a local hospital has decided to help Fu's parents after reports that they have kept their son alive for more than five years using a hand pumped PVC resuscitator bag and a ventilator made by a local DIY expert. They took turns compressing their son's bag 24-hours a day, seven days a week, until they had someone making them a medical ventilator with a motor, a speed controller, a pushing bar and an air bag, which cost 200 yuan (32 USD). But to minimize the electricity bill, which adds up to 5 to 6 yuan a day if the machine is left running all day, the couple still compresses the bag by hand during the day and turns on the machine only at night. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows Wang Lanqin (L) attending to her son Fu Xuepeng (not pictured), a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, in their home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. According to state media, a local hospital has decided to help Fu's parents after reports that they have kept their son alive for more than five years using a hand pumped PVC resuscitator bag and a ventilator made by a local DIY expert. They took turns compressing their son's bag 24-hours a day, seven days a week, until they had someone making them a medical ventilator with a motor, a speed controller, a pushing bar and an air bag, which cost 200 yuan (32 USD). But to minimize the electricity bill, which adds up to 5 to 6 yuan a day if the machine is left running all day, the couple still compresses the bag by hand during the day and turns on the machine only at night. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows Fu Xuepeng (C), a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows Fu Xuepeng (R), a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, smiling on his bed as he breathes with a self-made ventilator while his mother Wang Lanqin watches, in their home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. According to state media, a local hospital has decided to help Fu's parents after reports that they have kept their son alive for more than five years using a hand pumped PVC resuscitator bag and a ventilator made by a local DIY expert. They took turns compressing their son's bag 24-hours a day, seven days a week, until they had someone making them a medical ventilator with a motor, a speed controller, a pushing bar and an air bag, which cost 200 yuan (32 USD). But to minimize the electricity bill, which adds up to 5 to 6 yuan a day if the machine is left running all day, the couple still compresses the bag by hand during the day and turns on the machine only at night. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows Fu Xuepeng (R), a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, smiling on his bed as he breathes with a self-made ventilator while his mother Wang Lanqin watches, in their home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. According to state media, a local hospital has decided to help Fu's parents after reports that they have kept their son alive for more than five years using a hand pumped PVC resuscitator bag and a ventilator made by a local DIY expert. They took turns compressing their son's bag 24-hours a day, seven days a week, until they had someone making them a medical ventilator with a motor, a speed controller, a pushing bar and an air bag, which cost 200 yuan (32 USD). But to minimize the electricity bill, which adds up to 5 to 6 yuan a day if the machine is left running all day, the couple still compresses the bag by hand during the day and turns on the machine only at night. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows parts of a self-made ventilator that Fu Xuepeng (not pictured), a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, uses to relieve his mother Wang Lanqin and father Fu Minzu (both not pictured) from having to use a hand pump to help him breathe, placed on the ground at his home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. According to state media, a local hospital has decided to help Fu's parents after reports that they have kept their son alive for more than five years using a hand pumped PVC resuscitator bag and a ventilator made by a local DIY expert. They took turns compressing their son's bag 24-hours a day, seven days a week, until they had someone making them a medical ventilator with a motor, a speed controller, a pushing bar and an air bag, which cost 200 yuan (32 USD). But to minimize the electricity bill, which adds up to 5 to 6 yuan a day if the machine is left running all day, the couple still compresses the bag by hand during the day and turns on the machine only at night. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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This picture taken on January 28, 2013 shows Fu Xuepeng's father Fu Minzu showing his coarse hands as he stands next to the bed of his son Fu Xuepeng (not pictured), a former mechanic who was paralyzed in a road accident when he was 23 years old, as his mother Wang Lanqin (back L) looks on at their home in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. According to state media, a local hospital has decided to help Fu's parents after reports that they have kept their son alive for more than five years using a hand pumped PVC resuscitator bag and a ventilator made by a local DIY expert. They took turns compressing their son's bag 24-hours a day, seven days a week, until they had someone making them a medical ventilator with a motor, a speed controller, a pushing bar and an air bag, which cost 200 yuan (32 USD). But to minimize the electricity bill, which adds up to 5 to 6 yuan a day if the machine is left running all day, the couple still compresses the bag by hand during the day and turns on the machine only at night. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

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