14-year-old boy died after an operation to remove a benign tumor, which completely covers his face.
Emanuel Sayes, who since childhood suffered from a developmental disorder of the bone, arrived with his family from Cuba to the US to go under the surgeon’s knife back.
In December last year, the head of the Department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Miami and doctor Robert Marx, unlike his Cuban counterparts, agreed to do the surgery. Fourteen complex procedure was scheduled for January 2018.
According to the Miami Herald, the operation was successful, but after a few days as Emanuel began to deteriorate in connection with complications on kidneys and lungs. January 19, the boy was gone.
The family of Siesa donated the remains of a boy in science, to learn more about prostaticescoy fibrous dysplasia, which «terrorized» the child in the last two years.
On the page in Facebook under the name Emanuel Josue el de este tiempo – Emanuel the Joshua of Our Time, which was created to raise funds for the surgery, you can see over 200 comments with words of condolence.
«We really believe and have no doubt that Emanuel was completely healed and that now he’s, pretty face and two legs that work, and that he can run and jump and have a great time in heaven,» wrote the group missioner Janie Estrada, who has supported and helped the family Says for all time.
¡LAMENTABLE NOTICIA!😓😓😓El niño cubano de Zayas Emanuel 14 años, perdió la vida dias después de la cirugía de tumor del extirpación 4.5 kilos de que tenía en el rostro..
Posted by Gerardo Maldonado on Saturday, January 20, 2018
