Five-week-old Ellie Doyle’s tooth and nail fight for life is being won.

Her stomach, intestines and part of her liver had slipped into her chest, through a hole in her diaphragm muscle, squashing her lung and pushing her heart over.

RCH director of neonatal medicine Dr Rod Hunt said surgeons operated when she was a week old, pushing her organs back to where they belonged, and repairing the hole with a Gore-Tex patch.

Words by Marianne Betts.

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