The baby girl of Mongolian couple who was diagnosed with a hernia of the diaphragm under her lungs has been operated on successfully, thanks to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Centre.

Mongolian Foreign Minister Ts.Mukh Orgil expressed his gratitude to the hospital in a letter of thanks: “I join the praise of the baby’s parents and the citizens of Mongolia, and I thank you for saving her life.’

The couple, who arrived in Israel with language difficulties and without financial means, gave birth to their daughter at the Red Crescent Hospital in east Jerusalem, where they confirmed the suspicion that the baby was suffering from a diaphragmatic hernia that endangered her life.

Amichai Orkabi, the honorary consul of Mongolia in Israel, contacted Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, which agreed to treat her as a humanitarian gesture. Due to language limitations, the process of hospitalization and the medical procedure was mediated by a Mongolian-Israeli interpreter. The baby was successfully operated on by Dr Yaron Armon, director of pediatric surgery. The little girl was later discharged.