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Muktar’s Life!

THIS IS MUKTAR FROM ETHIOPIA, HE NEEDS OPEN-HEART SURGERY. HELP HIM REALIZE HIS DREAM OF BECOMING A DOCTOR.

Muktar is the eldest of 5 children in his family. His father, Kitabo, is a farmer and his mother, Rehima Abdulkadir, is a housewife.

At just two months of age, Muktar was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot, a life-threatening multiple congenital heart defect. While he has somehow managed to survive, his condition is deteriorating. He’s hoping that Save a Child’s Heart can perform the complex surgery he needs to save his life.

Muktar’s life-saving surgery requires funding of $15,000.
Please give generously to help him regain his health.

11,320$ raised, 74% of the goal

Goal - $15,000

Number of Donors - 542

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Child's Story

Age: 16
From: Shashemene, Oromiya, Ethiopia
Suffers from: Chronic fatigue and breathlessness
Condition: Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), a congenital heart defect with four abnormalities that reduce oxygen levels in the blood and can cause cyanosis, requiring surgical repair.
Unable to perform the surgery required to mend Muktar’s heart, physicians in Ethiopia reached out to Save a Child’s Heart.
Muktar’s family and community are overjoyed that he can receive treatment in Israel.

Muktar Kitabo is a quiet, introspective boy by nature. He loves watching football and dreams of becoming a doctor. He speaks both Oromiya and Amharic and loves eating injera with lentil stew. When he’s sick, his three sisters and brother help take care of him. Muktar is a 10th grader in public school, but his heart condition makes it very difficult to walk there – taking twice as long as it does for other children.

At just two months old, after experiencing breathlessness, weakness, fainting, and chest pain, Muktar was diagnosed with diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), a congenital heart defect with four abnormalities that reduce oxygen in the blood, causing cyanosis, and requiring surgical repair which cannot be performed in Ethiopia.