Israel News - Haitian Child Treated In Israel { 31 images } Created 3 Feb 2010
Woodley - Ongoing
Woodley is no longer in critical condition, 7 days after after complications arise during his open-heart surgery.
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Woodley Elysee - the six-year-old boy from Haiti. Woodley was brought to Israel by the Israeli rescue team to Haiti when it returned to Israel. Woodley suffers from a serious congenital heart defect and will be treated in Israel by the Israel-base humanitarian organization 'Save a Child's Heart' which provides life saving surgeries for children from developing countries. On Wednesday, Jan 3'rd, Woodley has undergone diagnostic catheterization at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. Later, Save a Child's Heart surgeons will perform the open heart surgery, required to save his life.
Elysee, has not yet entered school. He has never been able even to play ball. Had he remained in Haiti, he would probably have died in his teens, as his heart and lungs, with their inadequately oxygenated blood, would have been unable to support him.
His parents, whose home was not affected by the quake, remain in Haiti, as his mother is due to give birth to her fifth child in a few months. Elysee's aunt, who was in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake struck and managed to get out of a building just in time, accompanied him. They are staying at the Save A Child's Heart home in Azor, where foreign youngsters who will undergo operations performed by volunteer Wolfson surgeons stay before their surgery and during recovery.
After the operation, he will have to be hospitalized for five to seven days, recuperate in the Azor children's house and then return to Haiti with his aunt, equipped with the medications that he will need for full recovery.
Woodley is no longer in critical condition, 7 days after after complications arise during his open-heart surgery.
Images are in chronological reverse order !
Woodley Elysee - the six-year-old boy from Haiti. Woodley was brought to Israel by the Israeli rescue team to Haiti when it returned to Israel. Woodley suffers from a serious congenital heart defect and will be treated in Israel by the Israel-base humanitarian organization 'Save a Child's Heart' which provides life saving surgeries for children from developing countries. On Wednesday, Jan 3'rd, Woodley has undergone diagnostic catheterization at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. Later, Save a Child's Heart surgeons will perform the open heart surgery, required to save his life.
Elysee, has not yet entered school. He has never been able even to play ball. Had he remained in Haiti, he would probably have died in his teens, as his heart and lungs, with their inadequately oxygenated blood, would have been unable to support him.
His parents, whose home was not affected by the quake, remain in Haiti, as his mother is due to give birth to her fifth child in a few months. Elysee's aunt, who was in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake struck and managed to get out of a building just in time, accompanied him. They are staying at the Save A Child's Heart home in Azor, where foreign youngsters who will undergo operations performed by volunteer Wolfson surgeons stay before their surgery and during recovery.
After the operation, he will have to be hospitalized for five to seven days, recuperate in the Azor children's house and then return to Haiti with his aunt, equipped with the medications that he will need for full recovery.
