A seriously ill Palestinian baby has been given the chance to live after he received a heart transplant from a Jewish child.
Doctors at Sheba Hospital in Ramat Gan performed the surgery on six-month-old Musa, who was born with a range of life-threatening conditions, in what is believed to be the hospital’s first heart transplant on a child so young.
The baby was transferred to the Israeli hospital after doctors in the West Bank city of Ramallah struggled to treat his medical problems. His heart went into failure three weeks ago.
Dr David Mishaly, chief surgeon at Sheba’s paediatric and congenital heart surgery unit, told the Jewish News: “There were several miracles associated with this complicated surgery.
