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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Doctors save life of baby with ‘miracle’ rare surgery at St George’s Hospital in south London

London doctors helped to save the life of a premature baby who was expected to die a few hours after being born when surgeons discovered she had a dead bowel.

Deborah and Dominic La Spina said they do not believe their baby daughter Connie would be here today without the help of paediatric surgeons from St George’s Hospital in Tooting who “took the risk that no one else would”.

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