Brain atrophy paralyzes a child movement in IDPs camp
Idlib – North-Press Agency – Bashar Al-Fares
In a tent, which he does not own, Yasir al-Mahmmoud, watches his child with cerebral atrophy and acute malnutrition, as the rest of the children continue playing daily. Ali (10 years) remains in his bed on the ground. He smiles from time to time, during the consideration of his parents, his smiles give them hope that their child would be healed, who is displaced with his family from the village of al-Amqiyah in the northwestern countryside of Hama.
Ali’s family fled the village of al-Amqiyah in al-Ghab Plain to the al-Safsafa Camp near the Syrian-Turkish border to live in the camp. Displacement caused interruption of Ali’s treatment, that he had been receiving previously, causing him negative complications.
The interruption of treatment led to spinal curvature and ischemia because of his family’s inability to provide the needed treatment and medicines for their child.
Ali’s father told North-Press that his son suffers from cerebral palsy, as the doctor, who checked up his son recently, told him that the child suffers from malnutrition, the father added with a broken heart voice, “his situation is severely deteriorating, as he also suffers from scoliosis with malnutrition and ischemia.”
“We are a family living in a tent that is not ours, my son Ali is dying slowly in front of his mother and me, and we cannot offer anything to him, our living condition is very difficult,” the father said.
Yasser Mahmoud carried his child out of the tent, so that the two can forget their pain, after he gave his child a new dose of medicines, which keeps death away from Ali a little more, while he is waiting for help by humanitarian, relief and medical organizations at the door of the tent, to provide an effective treatment for his child whom Yasser wants to be like the rest of the boys of his age.
Brain atrophy is a neurological disease that causes a major impact on the main brain function, which is damage and loss of brain cells, leading to deficiency and loss of ability to perform voluntary operations, in addition affecting concentration of the patient.
The disease that afflicts humans in his early years, got Ali in his village, which witnessed a major bombardment previously in the area of al-Ghab Plain, and caused him to stay in bed or in his parents lap, who seek, with no great result, to keep death away from him, while Ali tries to comfort them with a few smiles he draws to overcome his pain and be happy with his parents.