Witness- His treatment costs more than two million dollars.. An Iraqi infant with a rare disease and his family are appealing to save him

Hussein Amjad, an Iraqi baby no more than 4 months old, suffers from a rare disease, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), and his family says that his treatment costs an exorbitant amount that they cannot provide and save his life, and appeals to the concerned authorities in Iraq to help them.

Doctors say that the life of this infant Hussein depends on providing an expensive treatment, worth more than two million US dollars.

Spinal muscular atrophy is a non-inflammatory genetic disorder that causes muscle weakness and loss of muscle tissue that worsens over time and may affect one muscle, a group of muscles, or the whole body, without affecting the nerves or the nervous system.

It is a rare condition that affects one child out of every 11 thousand cases worldwide.