(Zaman Al Wasl)- As Rawa'a, a 4-year-old Syrian refugee girl, plays in front of the door of her rented house near the Lebanese capital of Beirut, she is waiting for help that might save her right eye, which doctors decided to eradicate.
Rawa'a began to complain of pain in the eye and after she was shown to a doctor he confirmed her condition of retinal detachment. Last June, she underwent a glass cut operation and her condition worsened and her eye bled severely.
Following further x-rays and tests, a malignant tumor was found in the eye. The doctors decided to remove it at maximum speed to avoid the spread of the malignant tumor to the healthy eye and thus the brain.
Rawa'a was born after her family fled the northern Homs countryside to Lebanon on 20/8/2013 after regime bombed their home.
Rawa’s father Hossam Haj Hassan told Zaman al-Wasl that his child was suddenly hit with a high pressure in the eye and sudden rise in temperature on February 2, 2017.
The high pressure of 50 degrees led to separation in the eye network, and here the suffering of the family started to get Rawa'a the required treatment.
Her father added that they performed a surgical operation at the French-Lebanese hospital in Zahle on June 20, 2017. The cost of the operation of glass cutting and removal of the blue water was about $ 4,000 and the girl felt better for two weeks. But she suffered an external bleeding for two days, and bleeding moved into the eye.
Hassan, who lives with his family of three children and their mother in a humble house in the Mazra'at Yeshu neighborhood in Beirut that he presented Rawa’s case to a doctor on November 1 and the doctor decided to remove the eye and implant a cosmetic eye for a cost of $3700.
The family cannot secure this cost as the father says-who was working in the aluminum carpentry and had to stop for nine months because of his daughter’s health after he paid all the savings from his work in the past period.
He added that he had been forced to sell his house and spent many sums on the cost of transportation and hospitals for doctors and the cost of x-rays and tests to no avail. And worse, he says, doctors could not determine the child's injury within months of treatment. Some of them told him she has infection while other doctors said it was a tumor and others said she had a virus.
Zaman A Wasl
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