Tests showed that the accountant's liver was severely damaged.

On April 4, liver expert Dr Lui Hock Foong and transplant surgeon Dr Jeyaraj Prema Raj were called in.

They told her husband, Mr Ng Aik Sun, that her only hope was to get a liver transplant.

But her liver failed completely within a day and she had to be put on dialysis, which can sustain a patient for just two to three days, unlike for kidney failure where regular dialysis lets patients live for years.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.