XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.politics.scorched-earth, uk.politics.misc   
   XPost: uk.legal, alt.politics.uk   
   From: "@frank.net   
      
   On 2/11/2017 10:16 PM, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:   
   > burfordTjustice wrote:   
   >> So why was she not brought to the UK, Cuba or Venezuela with   
   >> their vastly better government run health care????   
   >>   
   >> A 4-month-old girl from Iran who was temporarily banned from coming   
   >> into the U.S. by President Trump's immigration order is set to have a   
   >> life-saving heart surgery in Portland.   
   >>   
   >> Fatameh Reshad was admitted to OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital on   
   >> Tuesday, where she is undergoing a series of tests in preparation for   
   >> her surgery, the hospital said in a news release.   
   >>   
   >> The news comes a week after her family's tourist visa was abruptly   
   >> canceled after Trump announced his executive order banning the entry   
   >> of people from seven countries with Muslim majorities - including   
   >> Iran. A waiver was granted to the family for them to travel.   
   >>   
   >> Reshad underwent a procedure called a cardiac catheterization on   
   >> Friday to determine the extent of injury to her lungs, which went   
   >> well, according to Dr. Laurie Armsby, interim head of the Division of   
   >> Pediatric Cardiology at OHSU.   
   >>   
   >> "The results were very encouraging. Despite the excess of blood   
   >> passing through her lungs we believe we can proceed with surgical   
   >> correction as planned," she said in the news release.   
   >>   
   >> The girl's heart defects can be repaired by closing the holes in her   
   >> heart and reconnecting the transposed arteries to the proper pumping   
   >> chambers of the heart, according to Dr. Irving Shen, head of the   
   >> Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at OHSU, who will perform the   
   >> surgery.   
   >>   
   >> If all goes as planned, Fatemeh's health care team expects her to stay   
   >> in the hospital for up to three weeks.   
   >>   
   >> The family of the 4-month-old chose Portland because of its proximity   
   >> to relatives and because of OHSU's expertise in treatment of the heart   
   >> condition.   
   >>   
   >> The hospital also said the family "expresses their profound gratitude   
   >> for the expert care their child is receiving and for the constant   
   >> stream of support from people around the world."   
   >>   
   >   
   > Even illness and disease have become useful.  That's how bad politics   
   > has become.   
      
   This is how bad the Democratic party has become.  They cannot win at the   
   ballot box so want to win by mob rule.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)