Aser Abumuhaisen, 5, is making strides learning how to get around in a wheelchair. His leg had to be amputated below the knee.
"He has really severe burns," the boy's grandmother, Amira Abumuhaisen, said, as translated by Nour-Saida Harzallah, a student in the MD-PHD program at Harvard and MIT."He's not mobile. And he had a lot of infections. And they had to request a special plane for him to actually get to Boston."Aser's 13-year-old brother, Anas, was also severely injured., a nonprofit humanitarian organization.
Harzallah serves as a student volunteer for the nonprofit. She speaks fluent Arabic and helps support patients like Aser and his family, as well as a 10-month-old boy named Walid. "The first surgery was to open up the skull and relieve some of the pressure," his mom said."He's doing very well now … He's exceeding the the surgeon's expectations, but he still has a couple more surgeries to go."
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