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FORT CARSON, Colo.—The Army says soldiers from Fort Carson who are deployed in Afghanistan are treating a 6-month-old Afghan boy with a rare heart condition.
The boy’s family brought him to a clinic run by Fort Carson’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, which deployed to Afghanistan this summer.
Maj. Jennifer LaBahn, who is in charge of the clinic, says the boy has a congenital defect involving improperly connected arteries. He also had an infection.
Clinic workers gave him supplemental oxygen and antibiotics and are trying to fund an aid group to pay for surgery at a children’s hospital in Kabul.
Capt. Christopher Alden, a physician assistant, built the infant a crib and rigged up a mobile to keep him entertained.
