23
Jan
2016
UNRWA health cuts spark fears of agency’s closure
Mohammad looks completely healthy at first glance. A 5-year-old Palestinian boy with fair skin and a boyish smile, he often plays in an alleyway just outside his tiny one-bedroom home in Shatila--a 67-year-old enclave located in the southern suburbs of Beirut. As his mother, Sondos, watched her son do so again, she revealed his desperate need to have an operation soon. “My son has epilepsy,” Sondos, a woman with nicotine stained teeth, told The Daily Star. “He had his first seizure in a playground when he was 2 years old. We can’t afford an operation and the hospitals here [in…
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