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Playing Happily indoors, Youmma Habash 12, left, can now also swim and skate thanks to a kidney operation at the Hospital for Sick Children last March(...)
Playing Happily indoors, Youmma Habash 12, left, can now also swim and skate thanks to a kidney operation at the Hospital for Sick Children last March(...)

Playing Happily indoors, Youmma Habash 12, left, can now also swim and skate thanks to a kidney operation at the Hospital for Sick Children last March(...)

Date12/9/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Playing Happily indoors, Youmma Habash 12, left, can now also swim and skate thanks to a kidney operation at the Hospital for Sick Children last March. Before that she could not even walk. The hospital has done 13 kidney transplants since 1969. Youmma lives in North York with her parents who came here from Lebanon via Israel five years ago. Playing with her is her cousin, Michael Dache, 4.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026469F
Youmma Habash, A living miracle
Youmma Habash, A living miracle
12/20/1971
Youmna Habash, 11, is comforted by her mother, Mrs
Youmna Habash, 11, is comforted by her mother, Mrs
3/19/1971
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital
11/23/1966
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital
11/23/1966
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital. Arthur van Zandt (lef(...)
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital. Arthur van Zandt (lef(...)
11/23/1966
Mending, Peter Alley and son, Tom, are both recovering well from a transplant operation at Toronto Western Hospital last week in which the father dona(...)
Mending, Peter Alley and son, Tom, are both recovering well from a transplant operation at Toronto Western Hospital last week in which the father dona(...)
7/23/1979
A Happy Moment for Mr. and Mrs. Michael Habash, North York, came on the weekend when they took their daughter Youmna, 11, right, home from the Hospita(...)
A Happy Moment for Mr. and Mrs. Michael Habash, North York, came on the weekend when they took their daughter Youmna, 11, right, home from the Hospita(...)
4/9/1971
Wrapping Gifts for Christmas, Ivana Bianchet, 13, will be able to eat cake for the first time since she received a new kidney in a joint operation wit(...)
Wrapping Gifts for Christmas, Ivana Bianchet, 13, will be able to eat cake for the first time since she received a new kidney in a joint operation wit(...)
12/9/1971
Delighted with the success of an operation that gave him a new kidney yesterday, Peter Ransberry, 21, of Orono waves from his bed at Toronto General H(...)
Delighted with the success of an operation that gave him a new kidney yesterday, Peter Ransberry, 21, of Orono waves from his bed at Toronto General H(...)
10/30/1968
Kidney transplant patient 16-year-old Paul Pope who received new kidney on June 28, leaves Toronto General Hospital yesterday for home in Barrie
Kidney transplant patient 16-year-old Paul Pope who received new kidney on June 28, leaves Toronto General Hospital yesterday for home in Barrie
8/28/1968
Doctors carry Kidney of Jeremiah Shennahan into Toronto Western Hospital for transplanting into George Rate today
Doctors carry Kidney of Jeremiah Shennahan into Toronto Western Hospital for transplanting into George Rate today
11/13/1968
Kidney patient Diane spencer, 21, home from hospital for visit, reads to daughter, Emma
Kidney patient Diane spencer, 21, home from hospital for visit, reads to daughter, Emma
1/8/1978