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Gaza City, Gaza Strip — Five-year-old Sila Abu Aqlan curled her lip in concentration as she practiced walking for the first time on a prosthetic leg at a clinic in Gaza City. The foot of the new ...
Scott Pelley: But if you have a child with multiple amputations, how can you achieve that? Dr. Lisa Thornton: First of all, we're blessed that children are resilient, right? So, if they're not in ...
Experience gained in a children's amputation service has indicated that a relatively large number of children are also being exposed to the traumatic experiences that may result in amputation.
A generation of children and young adults in Gaza are coping with devastating amputations after a year of brutal war. It's left a terrible legacy, with thousands - many of them babies - coping ...
The surgical amputation procedure reconnects muscles ... and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Throughout the 17-month war, supplies and services for children and adults with amputations have fallen far short of demand. Gaza’s ceasefire that began in mid-January offered a window for aid ...
Throughout the 17-month war, supplies and services for children and adults with amputations have fallen far short of demand. Gaza’s ceasefire that began in mid-January offered a window for aid ...