{"id":8366,"date":"2017-08-17T07:32:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/44.223.10.86\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2017-08-17T07:32:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:32:28","slug":"hadassah-removes-tumor-gazan-boy-walks-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/hadassah-removes-tumor-gazan-boy-walks-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadassah Removes Tumor; Gazan Boy Walks for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unable to stand on his feet, suffering from severe respiratory distress, a four-year-old boy from Gaza gained the ability to walk once Hadassah Hospital surgeons identified and removed a large tumor lodged in his chest.<\/p>\n<p>Born with a number of birth defects affecting his spine and chest, Sliman had seen many doctors, but they were not able to improve his situation. After Hadassah\u2019s pulmonary specialists treated his acute respiratory distress, and its surgical team tackled the complex surgery to remove the entire tumor, Sliman\u2019s recovery was rapid, relates Prof. Uzi Izhar, head of Hadassah\u2019s General Thoracic Surgery Unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on, kid, we start walking,\u201d Prof. Izhar told Sliman. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HEALTH-SCIENCE\/Gaza-boy-able-to-walk-after-Jerusalem-doctors-remove-tumor-502387\">Read Sliman\u2019s story in The Jerusalem Post<\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pictured above: \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Four-year-old Sliman takes first steps after successful surgery at Hadassah.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unable to stand on his feet, suffering from severe respiratory distress, a four-year-old boy from Gaza gained the ability to walk once Hadassah Hospital surgeons identified and removed a large&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":8363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430],"tags":[2857],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories","tag-prof-uzi-izhar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8367,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions\/8367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hadassahinternational.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}