Friday, March 28, 2014

Doctors treating toddler shot by Taliban fear rise in Afghan violence --- (Reuters) - That Afghan toddler Abuzar survived a bullet fragment to the head during a Taliban attack in Kabul last week is astonishing. -- The two-year-old, his head heavily bandaged, has emerged from a coma, and the sight of him chuckling during hospital visits from his aunt give doctors hope he can make a full recovery. He may now go to Canada to live with an uncle. That is where the good news ends. -- The boy's mother, father and two sisters died in the brazen raid on the luxury Serena hotel, and at the Italian-run hospital where Abuzar is being treated, medical staff are planning to expand the facilities to cope with an expected rise in violence. --- "We are here to be surgeons of war," said Luca Radaelli, a doctor at the surgical centre in Kabul run by an Italian non-governmental group called Emergency, where admissions have soared 36 percent so far this year. -- "Our plan is to expand and build on the facilities we have present in Afghanistan," he added. -- Little Abuzar is patient number 28,378 at Emergency's surgical centre in Kabul, which has been open since 2001 and is one of just three of its kind in the country. - More, Jessica Donati, at: http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/28/afghanistan-children-idINDEEA2R08H20140328?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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