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No. 8 Medical team wins hope for little boy

An 8-year-old boy in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, was given a 5-hour chest compression by over 30 medical members of staff from Changzhou Children’s Hospital after he suffered a cardiac arrest. The enormous efforts made by these medics won valuable time for the boy, as he waiting for an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation team to arrive from Shanghai. The boy survived and went on to make a full recovery.