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	Quang&#39;s wife slipped into a coma after undergoing two operations on March 13 to terminate a nine-week foetus and remove gall bladder and kidney stones.</div>
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	Doctors have said that blood infection caused by her having to stop taking medicines for the stones because of her pregnancy had led to her current condition.</div>
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	Trang Thanh Hien, one of Quang&#39;s friends who has put up an appeal on her Facebook account, said that Quang, a graduate from Hanoi&#39;s most prestigious Fine Arts School, did not want just to receive donations from well-wishers. He has put up some of his paintings for sale.</div>
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	He&#39;s asking for VND11,000,000 (about US$510) for an original woodblock painting.</div>
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	Dong Bao (Fellow Countrymen), tells the symbolic story of Vietnamese people emerging from a giant egg. (In Vietnamese, the term literally means sharing one cocoon.)</div>
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	The total costs of medical treatment, including the operations and kidney dialysis, has been estimated at VND500 million ($24,000), Hien said.</div>
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	She said she&#39;s hoping that someone can organise an auction to raise the money needed to pay rising hospital fees.&nbsp;</div>
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Artist sells paintings to save wife's life

HANOI - It may not be the ideal way to present a painter's work, but Pham Khac Quang is trying to gather every last penny he can to save his wife, currently in a coma at Hanoi's Viet Duc hospital.