The parents of the infant, Muhammad Musaitef, try to help him adapt to his industrial parties in a camp in Idlib countryside (northern Syria), where Muhammad takes his first steps near his tent, and his father hopes that his young child will complete treatment in Turkey at a later time, so that he can move and integrate among his peers children.
And recently, world and Arab public opinion has been preoccupied with the story of the Syrian infant, Museef, who was born missing the upper and lower limbs due to a congenital deformity, and his pictures with his father on the communication sites aroused widespread sympathy that prompted the Turkish government to install artificial legs for him.
However, Khaled Al-Musaitif, the father of the child, blames the media, civil associations and organizations for their preoccupation with the news of the two parties being installed for his son only, without extending a helping hand to him after his return from Turkey to the camp in Idlib, while the man on Al-Jazeera Net thanked the Turkish government for treating his child.
The parents of Muhammad Musaitef are waiting for their child to complete the installation of his upper limbs in Turkey soon (Al-Jazeera)
Cases in the thousands,
although luck and circumstances have favored - to some extent - the infant Muhammad, 86 thousand Syrians have resulted in their injuries - since the start of the war in Syria 9 years ago - to amputation of limbs, according to the latest report of the World Health Organization, and they are waiting to extend a helping hand to them.
The organization’s report states that one and a half million people live with permanent disabilities, calling on the international community to expand the scope of support provided to rehabilitate the injured and reintegrate them into society.
Earlier, the head of the International Doctors Association, born Yurt Seven, considered that the rates of leg injuries and arm amputations in Syria were the largest in the world since World War II.
In the camps of northern Syria, dozens of those who have suffered amputations are sitting, waiting for a hand to extend to them with aid, at a time when the spread of the Corona pandemic deepens and the collapse of the value of the Syrian currency from their wounds, generated by the war.
The Happy Steps Center provides its services to more than 50 cases per month in northern Syria (Al-Jazeera)
Turkish efforts and
with the transformation of the communication sites into a main source of news and the transmission of events, Syrian activists and journalists have succeeded this year in conveying the suffering of dozens of families with their children who suffer from the effects of the bombing and battles in Syria for more than 9 years, at a time when Turkish officials interacted with these cases Positively, to allow these cases to cross for treatment.
The Turkish "AFAD" organization is coordinating the crossing operations of these cases from northern Syria to Turkish territory, in order to receive treatment in hospitals.
According to the Turkish media, the Turkish Interior Minister, Suleiman Soylu, personally followed several cases of sickness of Syrian children through interaction on the media, and ordered the passage of these cases to Turkish hospitals, the last of which was the case of the child Museef, who was received by the wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, And the Turkish media celebrated him.
Technical official Hilal takes measurements of a young man who lost his leg due to the bombing in northern Syria (Al-Jazeera)
The Hope Industry is
not far from the Syrian-Turkish border. Ghazal Hilal, the technical officer, is working hard to create a homemade industrial leg for a young man who lost his leg as a result of the explosion of a landmine left over from the battles between the opposition and ISIS in the countryside of Aleppo (northern Syria).
Hilal coordinates work with 16 workers at the Happy Steps Center, which provides free services for Syrians with amputations, and Hilal indicates that the number of cases benefiting has ranged between 50 and 60 cases per month since the center was established in 2014.
As for the mechanism of accepting cases, Hilal tells Al-Jazeera Net that registration is done through the quarantine system through the WhatsApp application or the center's Facebook page, titled "Hope is our goal."
However, according to Hilal, the center suffers from difficulties, most notably the inability to manufacture upper limbs in cases of amputation of hands and arms.
Because of the high cost, it was not possible to obtain special machines.