Founded in 1995 by American immigrant and heart surgeon Dr. Ami Cohen, Save a Child’s Heart began operating at the Wolfson Medical Center, where he worked. It started out when a pediatric cardiologist from Ethiopia asked for Cohen’s help with two children he was treating. They were sent over to...
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It took a global effort to save the life of an Afghan toddler suffering from a congenital heart defect. Israeli doctors, who voluntarily carry out heart surgeries for Save a Child’s Heart foundation, this week performed life-saving surgery on the two-year-old boy at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. The...
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Wisam was born in northern Iraq 17 months ago with life-threatening congenital heart disease. His family is one of 200,000 adherents of the Yazidi faith who have escaped to the mountains near their hometown of Sinjar under persecution by the Islamic State, the al-Qaeda terrorist group offshoot formerly known as...
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