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Abigail Klein Leichman

Israeli Surgeons Overcome Power Outage To Save Child’s Life In Ethiopia

A humanitarian delegation of physicians from Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa was performing lifesaving surgery on a three-year-old girl in Addis Ababa when suddenly the electric ventilator stopped working and the lights went out. THOMAS COEX/GETTY IMAGES 

A humanitarian delegation of physicians from Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa was performing lifesaving surgery on a three-year-old girl in Addis Ababa when suddenly the electric ventilator stopped working and the lights went out.

Unfazed, the surgeons spent the next 15 minutes continuing the procedure using light from Dr. Yotam Shkedy’s battery-operated surgical headlight and their cell phones.

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