Boy with birth defect travels to South Florida for major surgery


Boy with birth defect travels to South Florida for major surgery with Nicklaus Children's Hospital's craniofacial center.

Published on: 07/21/2017

MIAMI (WSVN) - A little boy with a birth defect traveled to South Florida for a major operation that has already saved one life and changed another.
Six-year-old Mesut Hosein traveled from his home in Trinidad and Tobago to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, where he had extensive surgery to fix a birth defect.

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