Xuan Thuy walked five steps down the aisle with crutches, then Khanh Trinh stepped down, carried her onto the stage to the applause of over 300 guests.
Seven-year-old Phuong Anh has lived with rare Pompe disease for seven years, requiring a strict sugar-free diet and bi-weekly infusions with monthly costs reaching half a billion Vietnam dong to survive.
Doctors identified the dangerous rare disease amyloidosis in a man experiencing shortness of breath, saving his life through a successful simultaneous heart and liver transplant.
