Ho Zhiliang is 24 and has lived his entire life with his heart beating just below the skin of his abdomen, as his heart is just below the skin in his abdomen. He was born with congenital cardiac exposure syndrome, a condition which is said to kill more than 90 per cent of patients at birth or shortly afterwards. To the surprise of many, he has survived the condition for 24 years till a doctor told his parents that his condition was rapidly deteriorating and that he required urgent surgery.

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