Son kept alive with €23 homemade ventilator

Impoverished Chinese farmers Fu Minzu and Wang Lanqin could not afford the hospital bills to keep their paralysed son alive.

So they installed a homemade £20 ventilator that they have hand-pumped 25,920 times a day for the last seven years to keep their brain-damaged son from dying.

Their extraordinary devotion has now gathered national attention, triggering massive donations that give them hope for Fu Xuepeng, who was 23 when he was left brain- damaged by a motorbike accident in 2006.