MR CHUA Kok Hin, 66, works six days a week doing shifts as a cleaner at the airport, plays table tennis twice a week for two hours each time, and has won several competitions in the sport.
All this was made possible after he got a new heart 16 years ago.
'I feel good,' he said, 'Previously, I could not work. Now I'm happy to have a job. I'm satisfied.'
Mr Chua is one of 27 Singaporeans leading relatively normal lives after receiving heart transplants. The longest surviving patient here has lived for 19 years with his new heart.
In 1999, Mr Chua even represented Singapore in table tennis in the biennial World Transplant Games, a sports competition organised specially for organ and tissue receipients.
The affable man admitted that previously, he did not watch his health, slept at irregular hours and smoked heavily. All this, he reckoned, contributed to his heart problems...
This article appears to me because I thought it is something about charity.
There is no writer point of view.
I would like to ask the writer, how he can stay on when he had not charge his heart.
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