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Framed by a mobility cell in a rehabilitation center in the Syrian capital, Abdulghani Ghayyana cautiously advances on two artificial legs, while he walks for the first time for more than a year [19659002"Iwanttobeabletobear"saysthe48-year-oldveterinarianhisanxioussondragginghimacrossthebusyhall
A specialist also carefully monitors Abdulghani's progress in double amputation, because he has an idea of the locally made prosthesis.
"I do my best so that I can help and do the work I love", says the father of seven children in the province Hama Central.
Tens of thousands of people have lost Abdulghani is one of hundreds of people helped by the Physical Rehabilitation Center of Damascus – free of charge.
Patients of all ages are trying artificial limbs skies according to their size. new prostheses from a neighboring room.
Abdulghani lost his two last year, after being injured during a bombing as he was returning home on his motorcycle vaccinating livestock.
"After being hurt, I felt really desperate, I could not move and I constantly needed help … It was very hard to bear."
"I was deeply embarrassed for my son every time I had to go anywhere," adds Abdulghani. "Back on my legs" –
A doctor in Hama referred Abdulghani to the Damascus center, led by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Every day dozens of patients They arrive from the other side of Syria, that they have lost members to the war or as a result of an illness
"I I'm in the final stages – being equipped with artificial limbs and practicing "walking," says Abdulghani.] "In a week, I should be on my legs again."
Across the room, a young man tries to walk with a new artificial leg, his hands gripping rails running along a support ramp.The boy stands nearby on a bed, as a doctor poses a prosthesis on his partially amputated leg, before placing a substandard limb under the knee. [19659018UnitedStatesrelationshipoftheHealthyHealthyDeliveredlast86000Syrianswheresubtitledimpedures
In an adjoining room, a Syrian prosthetist and his assistant put the finishing touches to plastic and metal limbs s the supervision of an ICRC expert.
A newly completed artificial leg is placed on an impeccably arranged workbench under a carefully aligned screwdriver board and other tools.
Legs and arms of different sizes await the outside world, bearing the names of their new owners.
– Patients point upwards –
The center started manufacturing its own prosthetics in 2010, says director Nazeer Kanaan, but became more active after the start of the civil war l & # Next year
Kanaan says:
Production surged by 250 artificial limbs in 2014 to double from last year – and since May, workers at the center have been multiplied by the crisis, accidents, shootings and landmines. churnin The facility mainly manufactures prostheses for people whose legs have been amputated above and below the knee, says Ayat Ezzadeen, a 28-year-old supervisor.
but we give them an artificial limb and they stand up, "she says.
Amani, 10, wears new pink sneakers for a second training session with her new leg.
It comes from the province of Deir Ezzor, where the Islamic State group has lost ground in recent years
Jihadists planted land mines under pressure from Syrian democratic forces backed by the United States on a front and troops the Syrian regime on another. "19659031] Amani" came out of the house to play in our village and a mine exploded, resulting in the amputation of the leg below the knee, "says the 28-year-old aunt of the young daughter
"Thank God, she is now walking again. "
Amani, a 10-year-old amputee, is helped as she tries to walk with her new prosthesis in the Syrian Arab Red Crescent center in Damascus, July 15, 2018
Abdulghani Ghayyana, who lost his legs last year after being hit during a bombing while he was driving his motorcycle, walking to help a cadre at the Syrian Arab Red Crescent in Damascus on the 15th. July 2018
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent began manufacturing its own prosthetics in 2010, and now produces 50 per month
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