Watch | Boy attacked by chimpanzees all set for reconstructive surgery

Dunia Sibomania's lips were torn off during an attack by chimpanzees as he played near a river in Congo. He will undergo a rare double-lip reconstruction at a New York hospital. Doctors at Stony Brook Children's Hospital on Long Island will perform the first of several surgeries on January 11. The goal will be to restore functioning lips that will improve his speech and stop constant drooling. Dr. Alexander Dagum, the hospital's chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery said that during the eight hour surgery doctors will harvest a rectangle of skin and a nerve from Sibomana's forearm, that will be used to form the circle of both lips.