An Ontario hospital says it is looking to donors for help as the government asks them to boost their pediatric capacity to 150 per cent but stops short of offering provincial funding for the expansion.
TORONTO An operation at a Toronto hospital, believed to be the only one of its kind in the world, is helping a Pakistani teen to live a normal life. Muneeb Shahzad was born with a condition called hemifacial microsomia, which means that one side of his face failed to develop normally. A first effort to repair the left side of his jaw as a child failed. The operation in Pakistan, when Shahzad was nine to ten years old, involved using a rib bone to try and fix his underdeveloped left jaw. But instead, the jaw fused, resulting in something called ankylosis.