rbliver ST_07.08.2013_1321942668 / Radha Basu / Alphonsus Chern // Taxi driver Tong Ming Ming (in purple shirt), 34, together with liver recipient Toh Lai Keng (in blue shirt), 43, at the National University Hospital on 7 August 2013. Exclusive Sunday Times story for Aug 11 on taxi driver with heart of gold who donated part of his liver to a comatose stranger after seeing a facebook appeal. This is the first altruistic liver transplant at NUH.
CABBIE Tong Ming Ming, 34, touched a chord in Singaporeans from all walks of life when The Sunday Times reported last week that he donated a part of his liver to a stranger on the brink of death.
More than 60 readers commended him online and in e-mail to The Sunday Times. The story garnered more than 400 “likes” on The Straits Times’ Facebook page.
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