Beijing: A toddler who miraculously survived a fall from her 10th-floor home in east China’s Zhejiang Province woke up today from a 10-day coma.
The two-year-old girl who fell out the window of her home on July 2 had been in a state of unconsciousness.
“Her eyes opened slightly this morning, and she called out to her mom and dad when they entered the ward,” Dr Zhang Chenmei at Zhejiang Provincial Children’s Hospital was quoted as saying by Xinhua newsagency.
Zhang also said the child made eye contact with her parents during their 30-minute meeting.
“She seems conscious again, but the left side of her body remains numb,” the doctor said.
The girl nicknamed Niu Niu survived the high-rise fall after a neighbour tried to catch her and prevented the child from hitting ground at full force.
Niu Niu was in critical condition with serious internal injuries when she was sent to hospital.
“Now that her heartbeat, blood pressure and pulse are all normal, we can assume she’s out of danger,” the doctor said.
Wu Juping, the neighbour who saved the girl suffered a fracture of her left arm in her heroic effort. (PTI)
Now, ‘funeral strippers’ to dance away the deceased with a smile!
London: People in Taiwan have come up with a new way to honour the dead – they call strippers to dance for the deceased at funerals.
For a modest fee, the scantily-clad women arrive on an Electric Flower Car, to gyrate erotically in front of the departed and their mourners.
This Taiwanese phenomenon has been labelled as scandalous by some, but many hail it as an important part of the grieving process – and the perfect way of sending off their loved ones with a smile, reports the Daily Mail.
The authorities are trying to crack down on the mainly rural practice documented by anthropologist Marc L Moskowitz in his new film ‘Dancing For The Dead: Funeral Strippers In Taiwan’.
The associate professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of South Carolina said he created the film to show the practice to U.S. audiences “who generally have a very narrow idea of what culture is, what a proper funeral is and how to grieve”.
While speaking to website io9, Moskowitz admitted he had not seen any “full stripping” himself because they knew he was filming, but everyone he spoke to had seen complete nudity.
During his research, Moskowitz said he heard several explanations as to why people hired them for funerals.
Some said it was because new ghosts get picked on by older ghosts, so the performance was to distract the older ones to let the newer ones get used to his environment. (ANI)
Spanish surgeon performs first transplant of 2 legs
Valencia (Spain): Spanish surgeon Pedro Cavadas carried out here Monday the world’s first-ever double leg transplant.
The operation performed by Cavadas and his medical team at Valencia’s La Fe Hospital began Sunday night.
This was a “highly complex” operation that had never been done before, according to hospital authorities, who did not provide information about the patient receiving the transplant.
They said that Cavadas considered it necessary to wait for at least 48 hours before giving out information and asked both patient and donor to keep the matter confidential.
Cavadas previously performed Aug 18, 2009, the world’s first face implant to include both jaw and tongue, on a 43-year-old man who was released from hospital close to a month after his operation.
Chinese province calls for one-child policy relaxation
Beijing: China’s southern Guangdong province has asked the central government to relax a law that restricts most families to having one child.
One-child policy has been in place for 30 years.
Guangdong wants to lead a pilot project that would allow some families to have a second child.
Guangdong officials are also concerned about the province’s rapidly ageing population.
“The increase in population is still a big problem affecting our social and economic development,” the BBC quoted Guangdong”s population commission head Zhang Feng, as saying.
“But in the long-term, ageing will also be a problem”, he added.
Zhang said Guangdong, which had a population of 104 million in the last census, would not encourage couples to have a second child, but would permit some to do so under an experimental scheme.
Guangdong is proposing that the one-child restriction be waived if either of the parents was an only child. In most provinces, families are only legally entitled to a second child when both partners had no siblings.
China”s population is currently estimated to be 1.34 billion and is expected to peak in about 20 years. (ANI)