{"id":70609,"date":"2019-06-03T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=70609"},"modified":"2019-05-23T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:29:53","slug":"03-05-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=70609","title":{"rendered":"Israeli medical NGO treats its 5,000th child from abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Israeli medical NGO treats its 5,000th child from abroad<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Naama Barak<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Save a Child’s Heart diagnoses, treats and operates on children with life-threatening heart diseases from developing countries, free of charge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Balkis Makame Haji and her daughter Fatma arrive in Israel with Save a Child’s Heart. Photo by Gil Naor<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

One-year-old Fatma is crying in her hospital bed, and for good reason \u2013 she\u2019s hungry. She hasn\u2019t eaten since the evening before, in preparation for the open-heart surgery she\u2019s going to be wheeled into any minute.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her mother, Balkis, is trying to soothe her. Nineteen years ago, she herself was in a similar position, waiting at the very same hospital \u2014 Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel \u2014 for lifesaving surgery to repair a heart condition called patent ductus arteriosus.<\/span><\/p>\n

But neither 26-year-old Balkis Makame Haji nor her daughter Fatma are Israeli. They traveled all the way from Zanzibar for the free surgery with the help of the Save a Child\u2019s Heart<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> non-profit organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doctors operating on Fatma at the Wolfson Medical Center. Photo by Gil Naor<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Fatma, her mom says, seemed fine at birth, even weighing a hefty seven pounds. \u201cBut when she was three months old, she started to have frequent fevers, coughs and pneumonia. We went to the hospital.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An echocardiogram revealed that the three-month-old suffered from the same condition her mom did as a child. \u201cA lot of children have this problem,\u201d Haji explains. \u201cIt\u2019s dangerous because they don\u2019t grow properly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Balkis Makame Haji and her daughter Fatma at Israel\u2019s Wolfson Medical Center. Photo by Gil Naor<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Israeli medical NGO treats its 5,000th child from abroad Naama Barak Save a Child’s Heart diagnoses, treats and operates on children with life-threatening heart diseases from developing countries, free of charge. Balkis Makame Haji and her daughter Fatma arrive in Israel with Save a Child’s Heart. Photo by Gil Naor One-year-old Fatma is crying in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70609"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70630,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70609\/revisions\/70630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}