Nguyen Duy Hai had a tumor on his leg since he was four years old due to a bizzare genetic defect. By the time he reached his current age of thirty-one, his tumor had blossomed upwards to two hundred pounds. His plight was used by the state-controlled media in Vietnam as propaganda for years. His wish to be tumor-free was granted by a generous American physician, McKay McKinnon. Normally, it costs $12000 dollars to do such an operation, but the surgeon did it for free. Under the watchful cameras of TalkVietnam, the ten-hour long operation that took place at the France-Vietnam hospital located in Ho Chi Minh City was viewed live by television viewers across Vietnam. Previously, doctors had cut off his leg, but the tumor remained, so Hai was forced to do the operation. It would take a long time for him to fully recover after the operation.
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