Congolese Boy With Face Tumor Flown to US for Surgery Dies

[Guest Nicole]

DIKEMBE MUTOMBO’S CHILD WITH FACE TUMOR TRAGICALLY DIES DURING SURGERY

The Congolese child Dikembe Mutombo flew to the U.S. to remove a massive tumor from his face has sadly died after he suffered a “rare and unpredictable genetic reaction to anesthesia” during surgery.

8-year-old Matadi Sela Petit died Friday night after complications from his delicate surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. says The Dikembe Mutombo Foundation. Metadi was from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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