5-year-old girl traveled 8,000 miles to Children's Hospital to fix a hole in her heart

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Posted on: Nov 20, 2018

Abigael (a 5-year-old girl from Uganda with a birth defect) was discovered by Children's Heart Project doctors, part of Samaritan's Purse. HeartGift of Louisiana stepped in and brought her more than 8,000 miles across the world to Children's Hospital, where a team worked more than 12 hours fixing the big hole and numerous small holes in her heart.

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