Category — Out-of-Country Care

Just before 8 in the morning in early December 2007, 18-year-old Saba was riding in the bus she and her friends used to get to college in Baghdad when a young man boarded and asked to be taken to a different university. When the driver refused, the young man insisted and then pulled out a pistol and shot the driver numerous times, killing him. The man then turned to Saba and shot her as well. The bullet entered her left shoulder and exited from her back, after breaking several vertebrae and damaging her spinal cord.

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Wasim is 9 years old. His young parents came with him from Iraq seeking treatment, since the medical facilities in Iraq had been devastated by sanctions and then by the ongoing war and occupation. Wasim has been mostly blind since birth, despite having had several surgeries in Jordan intended to improve his vision. His family needs support to help their son see clearly for the first time.

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DAI team members in the US and the Middle East have been working for months to find help for Rasul, an Iraqi boy shot through both eyes in a firefight in Baghdad. We have just learned that — thanks to the generosity of DAI supporters — medical treatment to help restore his sight may soon be a reality.

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Hussein is a four-year-old boy, diagnosed with Hirschsprung’s Disease (HD), a serious, congenital illness which causes chronic constipation and severe discomfort, and can slow physical development. Children with HD are born without some or all of the nerves in the large intestine that are necessary for elimination. Left untreated, HD can cause infection, a ruptured colon, and death.

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