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the hiring of al aklabi is one of several changes at both b.c. children’s and b.c. women’s to improve outcomes for newborns with very sick hearts. the others include being the first canadian hospital to insert a tiny pacemaker into an infant, which postmedia reported on saturday .
epp, who lives in agassiz with her husband and two sons, stayed at ronald mcdonald house to be close to the hospital for the last two months of her pregnancy. arlo was born in april with pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect, which means the valve that allows blood to flow from the heart to the lungs was not fully developed, and there was a major hole in the heart.
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