The runt boy whom NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo flew to the United States from Africa has died from complications after delicate surgery to remove a facial tumor. Matatdi,an eight-year-old boy from the Congo who had a facial tumor which encompassed his entire face, was flown to Los Angeles by the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation with the hope of giving the child a better life.
TMZ has been following Matadi’s yarn closely and shared the news of his passing solemnly. The young boy flew to Los Angeles from the Democratic Republic of Congo final week to maintain lifesaving surgery at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and suffered cardiac arrest at the end of the procedure. Matadi had a “scarce and unpredictable genetic reaction to anesthesia” and passed absent final night at the hospital.
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