Published : 09-08-2017
The family of the Palestinian refugee from Syria Osama Moussa, aged six years-old, has made an appeal for urgent intervention in order to cover fees for the treatment of their cancer-stricken son, estimated at $5,000.
Osama, diagnosed with brain cancer, was deported from Yarmouk to Wadi AlZeina, in Lebanon, with his family.
His father, Mohamed Kheir Moussa, said Osama was taken to AlHamshari Hospital after he was hit with a sudden hyperthermia and severe stomachaches. Medics said Osama caught a six-centimeter-long brain tumor and gave instructions to immediately transfer him to the American University of Beirut Medical Center due to the lack of medicines and chemical doses in the resource-deprived AlHamshari Hospital.
The Beirut-based Medical Center accepted to hospitalize Osama on condition that his family pay $5,000.
Following contacts with his relatives in war-torn Syrian, the father was told that Damascus Children’s University Hospital receives similar cases. However the difficulty lies in having the child transferred to Damascus via a well-equipped ambulance for fear that the inter-hospital transfer from Beirut might cause him life-threatening head bruises.
The father said his appeals to the Palestinian Embassy in Lebanon for a life-saving medical referral have gone unheeded. At the same time, his son’s health has taken a serious turn for the worse at AlHamshari Hospital, in Sidon.
The family of the Palestinian refugee from Syria Osama Moussa, aged six years-old, has made an appeal for urgent intervention in order to cover fees for the treatment of their cancer-stricken son, estimated at $5,000.
Osama, diagnosed with brain cancer, was deported from Yarmouk to Wadi AlZeina, in Lebanon, with his family.
His father, Mohamed Kheir Moussa, said Osama was taken to AlHamshari Hospital after he was hit with a sudden hyperthermia and severe stomachaches. Medics said Osama caught a six-centimeter-long brain tumor and gave instructions to immediately transfer him to the American University of Beirut Medical Center due to the lack of medicines and chemical doses in the resource-deprived AlHamshari Hospital.
The Beirut-based Medical Center accepted to hospitalize Osama on condition that his family pay $5,000.
Following contacts with his relatives in war-torn Syrian, the father was told that Damascus Children’s University Hospital receives similar cases. However the difficulty lies in having the child transferred to Damascus via a well-equipped ambulance for fear that the inter-hospital transfer from Beirut might cause him life-threatening head bruises.
The father said his appeals to the Palestinian Embassy in Lebanon for a life-saving medical referral have gone unheeded. At the same time, his son’s health has taken a serious turn for the worse at AlHamshari Hospital, in Sidon.
