Hala Dawwas was four when she was crushed between a car and a brick wall, shattering her pelvis and dislodging her bladder.
The girl was rushed to the local hospital but they could only perform a crude reconstruction and Hala continually suffered infections.
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Her body no longer functioned normally.
"They saved her life and I thank God for that. They tried their best for Hala but it was perhaps the hardest case they had ever come across . They were so confused, " Hala's mother Tahane told SBS.
Frantic, Tahane searched for more specialised help.
On Hala's seventh birthday last year, paediatric surgeon Neil McMullin, at Melbourne's Cabrini Hospital, gave them hope.
Almost a year later, as Hala looked forward to returning home, he said the case was like nothing he had ever seen before.
We didn't have clear information as to the nature of the damage that had been caused by the accident," said Dr McMullin.
But he thought Cabrini Hospital would be able to help.
The Children First Foundation flew Hala and her mother to Melbourne to commence the process.
"Even in the aeroplane here I couldn't believe," Mrs Dawwas said in tears at Cabrini.
"I can never forget what he did for me, all my life."
Hala needed four operations and spent 42 nights in hospital, an intensive schedule that would not have been possible without the hospital's outreach program.
Surgery has restored Hala's bowel function and enables her to urinate through a tube in her belly button.
"We felt it was not feasible to place her bladder where it was but she has a very manageable, but slightly different way, of emptying her bladder," Dr McMullin told SSBS
Hala presented Dr McMullin with a card to say thankyou for making her better.
"They fix everything," she told reporters.
She wants to be a doctor when she grows up.
