SA medics save Yazan

14 March 2016 - 02:15
By Katharine Child

Baby Yazan Yousif Qade of Yemen would have died had it not been for the effort of a brave team of South African medics.He had been born with a heart defect in Yemen, a war-torn country to which no emergency air service was willing to fly.Yazan, the 29-day old baby, needed emergency surgery and to get it, required the help of a group of brave South African medics, who were willing to head into a war zone to fly him out.

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