A 4-year-old Iraqi boy horribly maimed following a bomb blast in his homeland will be getting a new face on Long Island.
Zeebadeen Hadi was only 10 months old when he came in contact with a live wire in the rubble of his family’s bombed home 40 miles north of Baghdad.
His nose, mouth and most of the lower part of his face were burned away.
He should have died, but his uncle, Hassan Khazaal, then 16, was cycling by and rushed the boy to Iraqi doctors, who were unable to treat him.
A desperate Khazaal brought him to American military doctors at the Balad Air Base who performed 20 surgeries and saved the boy’s life.
The charity Global Medical Relief Fund put Hadi’s family in touch with the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group in Garden City.
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