Double heart transplant girl Hui Yi dies

Miracle girl Tee Hui Yi’s mother mourning her sudden death yesterday at age 19. The plucky teenager, who captured the imagination of the nation when she survived a double heart transplant in 2007, died at the Batu Pahat Hospital the day she was supposed to start work as a kindergarten teacher.

BATU PAHAT: Miracle girl Tee Hui Yi, who underwent a double heart transplant in 2007, has died.

The 19-year-old, who had survived with a mechanical heart before the two transplants, died at the Batu Pahat Hospital at 10.02am yesterday the day she was to have started work as a kindergarten teacher.