Ashjean Khaled, from left, Asaid S. Abd, Wsam Rabea and Sivar Mohammed leave the hospital on Tuesday.
Posted on 12/28/2005 1:06:35 PM PST by Pragmatic_View
NEW YORK (AP) -- Four Iraqi children with life-threatening heart defects left a Bronx hospital Tuesday after successfully undergoing open heart surgery.
Through its Operation Iraqi Hearts, Montefiore Medical Center has performed such operations on more than 500 children around the world in the past 15 years.
When you look into a heart, it's not a Muslim heart, it's not a Jewish heart. We are all the same," Dr. Samuel Weinstein, a pediatric heart surgeon, said earlier this month after the Muslim children -- three boys and a girl, ages 6 to 14 -- arrived.
The children's families had first sought help from the U.S. military. Rotary Club's Gift of Life International helped Army Reserve Sgt. Marikay Satryano arrange for them to go to Jordan for treatment. Doctors there determined they needed surgery in the United States.
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Ashjean Khaled, from left, Asaid S. Abd, Wsam Rabea and Sivar Mohammed leave the hospital on Tuesday.
Yes, but I recommend you not use the pig heart-valve.
If it hadn't been for that evil Bush they would not have life saving surgery to recover from. Bush's evil knows no bounds.
This can't be real, lurch, the traitor, say that our brave troops are invading homes in the middle of the night and scaring the people.
Pathetic headline. They are really recovering from heart problems. The surgery helped with that.
I just came across this one.
bttt!
Thanks for the ping!
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