Nurse Nena Sreckovic, of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team, places a blanket over 40-day-old Yaqen as she recovers from heart surgery in the intensive care unit of the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya, on Feb. 26, 2020. Medical trips by international doctors help prop up Libya’s fragile health care system, which the World Health Organization has described as overburdened, inefficient and short of medicine and equipment. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
March 11, 2020
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March 11, 2020 11:18 a.m.
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.