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By: Nicky Blackburn - April 25, 2021
Doctors at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa have saved the life of a 7-year-old boy from Gaza after performing a complex 11-hour medical procedure involving three simultaneous surgeries.
Madchat Tapash was born with a defect in his renal system that caused life-threatening kidney failure and an improperly functioning bladder.
To fix the problems, doctors at Rambam had to perform three different surgeries to reconstruct the boy’s bladder, implant a new kidney donated from his mother, Sumar, and connect the new kidney to the reconstructed bladder.
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