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By: Abigail Klein Leichman - November 10, 2020
Micka, 23, was the last person rescued from under the rubble of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake and brought to the Israel Defense Forces field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Though one leg had to be amputated, Micka survived and thrived. Ten years later, she had an emotional reunion in Haiti with her Israeli orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Elhanan Bar-On.
“And just a few weeks ago she sent a picture of her newborn baby girl,” he tells ISRAEL21c.
Bar-On will never forget Micka, one of countless people he has helped to heal in disaster zones.
His most recent assignment was on the Greek island of Lesbos, where the World Health Organization asked him to coordinate emergency medical teams after Camp Moria – the largest refugee camp in Europe — was destroyed in a September fire.
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