A Louisville pediatrician hopes surveillance video will help identify a thief. Dr. Elsa Haddad returned home this weekend after a month of treating children at a hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. The pediatric emergency room doctor said an important piece of luggage was swiped at the Louisville airport. "I think one of the hardest things really is there are conditions (in Africa) that here in the United States are fixable in no time. And there, it's basically a death sentence," said Haddad. Haddad spent weeks taking detailed notes about the children she saw. Many were malnourished, some had malaria, and some didn't make it. On Saturday, after 30 hours of travel, she came home. "So we get home and I was like, oh my God, my pink suitcase, so Bob turns around and goes right back to the airport, talks to an officer, no sign of it," she said. Airport security showed Haddad surveillance video. You can see a woman pick up the pink bag, put it in her car, and then she drives off. Haddad said the bag had mementos from Africa. And most importantly, her journal with those detailed notes. "It's the experiences during the trip, the people I encountered, it's the illnesses I saw, it's what we did for certain kids, the medical history of some of the children that I was hoping to talk to one of the great NGO's here that sometimes bring kids over to do surgeries because they're not operable there, so they'll die there."

A Louisville pediatrician hopes surveillance video will help identify a thief. Dr. Elsa Haddad returned home this weekend after a month of treating children at a hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi.

The pediatric emergency room doctor said an important piece of luggage was swiped at the Louisville airport.


"I think one of the hardest things really is there are conditions (in Africa) that here in the United States are fixable in no time. And there, it's basically a death sentence," said Haddad.



Haddad spent weeks taking detailed notes about the children she saw. Many were malnourished, some had malaria, and some didn't make it.

On Saturday, after 30 hours of travel, she came home.

"So we get home and I was like, oh my God, my pink suitcase, so Bob turns around and goes right back to the airport, talks to an officer, no sign of it," she said.

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Airport security showed Haddad surveillance video. You can see a woman pick up the pink bag, put it in her car, and then she drives off. Haddad said the bag had mementos from Africa. And most importantly, her journal with those detailed notes.

"It's the experiences during the trip, the people I encountered, it's the illnesses I saw, it's what we did for certain kids, the medical history of some of the children that I was hoping to talk to one of the great NGO's here that sometimes bring kids over to do surgeries because they're not operable there, so they'll die there."