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Consultant thankful for gift of life 10 years ago
By LEE YUK PENG
yukpeng@thestar.com.my
MALACCA: Management consultant Lee Chen Hoe is
forever grateful for the kidney and new lease of life he got 10
years ago from an American engineer.
He received the precious gift in 1996 when C.H. Bender, 56,
who was hospitalised at a private hospital in Ampang,
Selangor, was declared brain dead after suffering a stroke.
Bender's family then decided to donate his kidneys and
corneas.
On July 27 that year, kidney transplants were performed on
Lee and teacher Azizi Husain, both 48 now, at Kuala Lumpur
Hospital (HKL).
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2. Consultant thankful for gift of life 10 years ago
ANNIVERSARY DO: (From left) Dr
Zaki, Azizi, Lee and Dr Sahabudin
cutting the cake to mark the 10th year
of transplants for Azizi and Lee at
HKL last month.
“I am very grateful to Bender and to the nurses and doctors
who looked after me. I can never repay them.
“Now I look after myself well and am actively involved in
organ donation awareness campaigns and the Green Ribbon
Support Group for transplant patients. This is my way of
repaying them,” said Lee, a father of twin girls.
In 1999, after completing his Masters in Business
Administration, he wrote to Bender’s family to express his
gratitude.
“It was like striking a big lottery when I was given the gift of
life,” he said.
Lee’s kidneys failed in 1991 – when his daughters were just
two-and-a-half years old – and he had to depend on dialysis
while waiting for a donor.
He celebrated the 10th anniversary of the transplant with his
“twin brother” Azizi as well as HKL's nephrology department
head Datuk Dr Zaki Morad Mohd Zaher and urology
department head Datuk Dr Sahabudin Raja Mohamed last
month.
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According to Lee, he has stopped celebrating his birthday but
commemorates the transplant date instead these days.
“I look forward to life and I am active in charity work to
collect merits,” he said.
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