• Dunia Sibomana, 8, poses with Dr. Alexander Dagum, chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Monday in Stony Brook, New York. Sibomana was left disfigured after he was attacked two years ago while playing with his brother and cousin near a nature preserve in the Congo by a group of chimpanzees. He will undergo rare facial reconstruction surgery on Monday. | AP
    Dunia Sibomana, 8, poses with Dr. Alexander Dagum, chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Monday in Stony Brook, New York. Sibomana was left disfigured after he was attacked two years ago while playing with his brother and cousin near a nature preserve in the Congo by a group of chimpanzees. He will undergo rare facial reconstruction surgery on Monday. | AP

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STONY BROOK, NEW YORK – An 8-year-old boy whose lips were torn off during an attack by chimpanzees as he played near a river in his native Democratic Republic of Congo will undergo a rare double-lip reconstruction at a New York hospital next week.

Doctors at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital on Long Island will perform the first of several surgeries on Dunia Sibomana on Monday. The goal will be to restore functioning lips that will improve his speech and stop constant drooling.

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