SURGERY AFGHANISTAN KABUL REPORTAGE
SHABANA NEUROFIBROMA KABUL 16 August 2005 Maiwand Hospital Doctors at the RSU are performing a four hour operation on Shabana s face to remove her lump Shabana a nine months old Afghan girl has been diagnosed with a neurofibroma This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue It is an inherited disorder If left unchecked a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit RSU at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans MRCA also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project GAGP The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s
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