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On December 18, 2014, in a ward in a Changsha hospital in Hunan Province, after the surgery on the mouth, Tan Zhouyu’s father Tan Jihai disinfects the stitches with iodine two times a day.. In the future, Tan Zhouyu still has to receive over 10 surgeries, big and small.
