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![Nurse Nena Sreckovic, of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team, places a blanket over 40-day-old Yaqen as she recovers from heart surgery in the intensive care unit of the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-19.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![The walls surrounding the Old City are illuminated before sunrise in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
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![Dr. Vitaly Dedovich, of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team, center, and Dr. Hanifa Alrabti, right, talk to a patient's mother at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-2.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Nurse Martina Pavanic, of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team, stands in the operating room before a surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-3.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Abdulrahman, 2, receives medical attention by members of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team in the intensive care unit of the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-4.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
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![Abdulrahman, 2, lies on an operating table as he is prepared for heart surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-5.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![People walk outside a mosque in Tripoli.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-7.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Yazan, 1, has his oxygen mask removed after his heart surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-8.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
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![Dr. William Novick, of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team washes his hands before entering the operating room at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-9.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Dr. Vitaly Dedovich, center left, of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team performs open heart surgery on Yazan, 1, at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-10.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Dr. Vitaly Dedovich, right, of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team, performs open heart surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-11.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
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![Dr. Vitaly Dedovich, of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team walks to the operating room at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-12.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Yazan, 1, is prepared for his heart surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-13.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Family members of children having heart surgery wait in a room at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-14.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
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![Migrants from Niger looking for jobs wait at an intersection in the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-15.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Dr. Vitaly Dedovich, left, Dr. William Novick, right, and Nurse Martina Pavanic of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team check the monitors with Dr. Fatima Alhony, center left, at the end of an open heart surgery on a 1-year-old boy at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-16.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Yazan, 1, cries as he is prepared for heart surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-17.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
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![Abdulrahman, 2, is taken to the operating room ahead of his heart surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-18.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Yazan, 1, sits with his mother before his heart surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-20.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
![Nurse Martina Pavanic, right, and other members of the Novick Cardiac Alliance medical team prepare to bring 40-day-old Yaqen out of the operating room after her heart surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/libya-21.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=878)
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