Award-winning Taiwan journalist connects with stranger who saved his life

DHAKA, Nov. 6 (NsNewsWire) — It took months – but the award-winning reporter for Taiwan’s SET News, a Taipei-based cable television channel, was finally able to thank a man who came to the spot to become his lifesaver after a fatal road accident.

Jouranlist Fu Chia-ching Saturday found the benevolent stranger who was identified as the 43-year-old Chang, a former volunteer fire fighter at the department’s Yuanshan branch, thanks to Facebook.

“Thanking Chang Ching-lung (張慶龍), who is a Bodhisattva in this world,” Focus Taiwan News Channel quoted Journalist Fu Chia-ching (傅家慶) as saying in a Facebook post on Sunday.

Fu won the Tseng Hsu-pai Journalism Award for best public service reporting last week with a report about the global impact of electronic garbage.

Fu set the search for the life saver in motion on Saturday, when he recalled the traffic accident in New Taipei’s Zhonghe District on May 4 that almost took his life.

After falling to the ground from his motorcycle, he blacked out due to the massive loss of blood from a cut to his femoral artery.

Once he was resuscitated at the hospital, he was told that a man performed CPR on him to keep him alive until paramedics arrived at the scene.

“It’s your expertise and courage that gave me a second life,” Fu wrote in a thank-you post on Sunday.

“After my re-birth, I have been trying to make my life meaningful.”

Eighteen hours after Fu released his first post, the New Taipei Fire Department found the man Fu was looking for, who was identified as the 43-year-old Chang, a former volunteer fire fighter at the department’s Yuanshan branch.

Asked by the media about this act, Chang would only say he was happy to know that Fu is alive.