(Photo By: Save A Child’s Heart)
By: Idan Zonshine - March 15th, 2021
Six-year-old Biniyam Tesfahun Maru of Ethiopia successfully underwent a life-saving open-heart surgery at the Sylvan Adams Children's Hospital at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon on Sunday evening, a spokesman for the Israeli NGO Save a Child's Heart (SACH) told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
Dr. Lior Sasson, head of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Unit at Wolfson and the surgeon that operated on Biniyam, told The Jerusalem Post after the surgery that "We are very glad that Biniyam was brought to us in time to fix his heart defect, save his life and enable him to grow up like all other children."
After all but a select few flights to Ben-Gurion Airport were grounded in January due to the emergence of alarmingly infectious new variants of COVID-19, SACH was able to arrange for Biniyam to fly to Israel on a special Jewish Agency immigration flight so he could receive treatment for a life-threatening cardiac defect on February 12.
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