Dr. Vitaly Dedovich, left, Dr. William Novick, right, and Nurse Martina Pavanic of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team check the monitors with Dr. Fatima Alhony, center left, at the end of an open heart surgery on a 1-year-old boy at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya, on Feb. 27, 2020. While still a resident, Novick began recruiting experts to help him trek to places where treatable heart disease means death due to a shortage of specialists and other r…
March 11, 2020
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US heart surgeon treats children lacking care in Libya's war
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Yazan, a 1-year-old Libyan boy, was born with congenital heart disease. With just one chamber, the organ pumped so little blood that when Yazan cried, his skin turned black. Without surgery, he would not survive.