Iraqi child saved in Israel

[sabra]

Source: ynet news

Following life-saving surgery, child's mother says: We love Israel, not afraid to return to Iraq

A three-year-old Iraqi child is lying in his hospital bed in Israel and smiling, after his life was saved thanks to a surgery performed by Israeli doctors.

The child, Boland, suffers from an inborn heart defect that requires intense cardiovascular effort for any small effort, as if he was running a marathon.

The level of medicine in Iraq is not advanced enough to handle the problem, prompting the international Shevet Achim foundation, which cares for sick children in Iraq and Gaza, to fly him to Israel for surgery given the Jewish state's advanced capabilities in the field.

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The child's mother, Ranjin, is smiling too. "We love Israel and are not scared to go back home," she says. "We have good doctors in Iraq too, but the technology is not like in Israel. We had a possibility to undergo the surgery in Iran for thousands of dollars, but we are a family without such means."

Meanwhile, the Shevet Achim foundation is working at this time to bring another 30 Iraqi children to the Safra Hospital for life-saving operations.





Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3968830,00.html

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[USMCMustang]

5. Please

Give it a rest.

[USMCMustang]

2. Please

Give it a rest!

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[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, sabra.:thumbsup:

[barb162]

6. K&R

[Behind the Aegis]

8. WELCOME BACK!!!

:hug:

[strategery blunder]

7. K&R

To those that wish to hold the doctors who saved an Iraqi child's life responsible for Israel's foreign policy issues: Remember what life was like under Bush? Remember when we had to disclaim that we were separate from our corrupt politicians?

Don't impute the sins of a nation's foreign policy to those who had no voice in said foreign policy. (And before crying 'but they must've voted for it!!!!11!!--we have no idea how the docs voted, so it's not fair to judge them by that standard, either.)

[Posteritatis]

9. 1/2 of the responses are deleted messages; that's sadly telling. (nt)

[Nihil]

10. K & R for some good news! (n/t)

:toast:

[leftynyc]

11. Excellent news

Hoping this child leads a long, healthy life thanks to this surgery. Those that feel the need to bring foreign policy into this heartwarming story can go fuck themselves. Sideways.

[Leftist Agitator]

12. What a wonderful story!

I don't know who was shitting up the thread with hatred, but whoever they are, they can fuck right off.