To facilitate a smoother traffic flow heading to the north between Rawang and Tanjung Malim, full 3-lane for Northbound traffic will be provided whereby a contra flow will be activated between KM445.55-KM402.25, on the North-South Expressway from 3:00 pm (10 October). The Contra Flow will be deactivated at 12:00 am on 14 October to provide normal 3-lane for Southbound traffic on their return journey.

Annie Freeda Cruez
New Straits Times

KUALA LUMPUR: It was so typical of Tee Hui Yi. The moment the 14-year-old caught sight of the press through the window of the Intensive Care Unit, she grabbed her small white board, scribbled a message and held it up.
“Thank U for everything and everybody concern and well wishes.”

As the media people filed into the ICU, she held up the board for them, wiping a tear from her eye.

Hui Yi, who captured the hearts of Malaysians with her bravery as she waited for more than a year for a heart transplant, was taken off the ventilator yesterday at 10am. And her doctors at the National Heart Institute are very satisfied with her progress.

IJN heart and lung transplant clinical director Dr Mohamed Ezani Md Taib said Hui Yi was very excited when the ventilator was removed. She wanted to speak but her throat was too sore from the tube.
“She likes to talk and eat,” he laughed, adding that even the medical team found it hard to believe that she made it.

“We are emotional about it too, to see that the tubes are out and she can talk. It’s very difficult to explain how we feel. We came very close to losing her.”

As for her parents, he added, there were no words to describe how happy they were to be able to talk to her, feed her and hold her hands.

“It’s a miracle,” said Dr Ezani.

After just more than a year on a mechanical heart, Hui Yi had a first transplant in the early hours of Thursday. But her body began to reject the heart from a 15-year-old who died in a traffic accident in Ipoh on Wednesday.

By some miracle, another heart became available and she had a second transplant on Friday morning. She received the heart of a 20-year-old traffic victim from Johor.

Also on Wednesday, a 39-year-old Sarawakian named Lang Kong received the 15-year-old boy’s lungs in a double transplant.

Dr Ezani said he was doing very well and had walked out of the ICU cubicles to do his exercises yesterday.

IJN transplant co-ordinator Noor Salina Othman said they now had four patients waiting for heart transplants and heart-lung transplants. Institute of Respiratory Medicine respiratory physician Dr Ashaari Yunus said they had nine patients waiting for double lung transplants.

Anyone who wishes to be an organ donor, or donate the organs of a brain-dead relative, can contact the National Organ Transplant Co-ordinating Centre at 03-26942705/704, 03-26156576, or the toll free line at 1-800-88-9080