Israeli doctors save Arab baby with serious birth defect

Ibtihaj from Arab village of Kfar Kassam was born with her intestines outside her abdomen.  After birth, surgeons at Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital put her organs back in place. They closed the wound with the Israeli TopClosure Tension Relief System (see here).

http://www.israel21c.org/israeli-patch-saves-baby-born-with-intestines-outside-body/

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