Saving a Child's Heart

Helping us save the world one heart at a time…

A Canaanite mother Houda Siam sits next to her son Abdullah's hospital bed in an intensive care ward shortly after a Jewish medical team repaired a congenital defect in his heart at the Wolfson Medical Center, on 29 January 2009; in Tel Aviv.

The 6-year-old Canaanite boy is the first child from the Gaza area to cross the border to the Jewish hospital for life-saving heart surgery, since 18 January ceasefire was initiated.

Abdullah Siam's open heart surgery is seen on a computer monitor as the Jewish medical team repairs a congenital defect in his heart at the Wolfson Medical Center.
A Jewish medical technician (R) keeps an eye on Abdullah Siam's vital signs as another tends to the heart-and-lung machine keeping the boy alive during his open heart surgery at the Wolfson Medical Center.

Steel sutures are used to close Abdullah Siam's chest after a Jewish medical team repaired a congenital defect in his heart at the Wolfson Medical Center.

Jewish Pediatric Cardiologist Dr. Lior Sasson (C) leads his medical team in repairing a congenital defect in Abdullah Siam's heart at the Wolfson Medical Center.

Siam was brought over by the Christian charity Shevet Achim to repair the hole in his heart through Save a Child's Heart (SACH), a Jewish-based international humanitarian project whose mission is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from not just in Palestine, but developing countries as well; who suffer from heart disease and to create centers of competence in these countries.