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About a year after Lewi William\u2019s complex heart surgery at the Bambin Ges\u00f9 Hospital and his return to Ethiopia, reports from his family describe a child who goes to school and plays football with his classmates, confirming the complete success of the surgical procedures carried out a year ago.
\nThe little boy had been referred to the GSI Italia doctors on a mission in the Ethiopian capital in mid-2024, with a documented diagnosis of \u2018Tetralogy of Fallot\u2019, a heart defect that is ultimately incompatible with life and responsible for significant respiratory and mobility limitations at the time GSI Italia took him under their care. Brought to Italy in January 2025, little Lewi was admitted and prepared for surgery at Foligno Hospital before being transferred to and operated on at the paediatric hospital in Rome. The cardiac situation proved even more complicated than anticipated due to the discovery of further vascular anomalies, which required three consecutive procedures, the last of which involved the implantation of a pacemaker.
\nIn recent days, we received a message from Dr Tamirat, Head of the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, confirming the young patient\u2019s almost complete recovery, as documented by the electrocardiogram and echocardiogram.<\/p>\n

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About a year after Lewi William\u2019s complex heart surgery at the Bambin Ges\u00f9 Hospital and his return to Ethiopia, reports from his family describe a child who goes to school and plays football with his classmates, confirming the complete success of the surgical procedures carried out a year ago. 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