A mother confort her daughter soon after her surgical operation


SHABANA THE DAY AFTER KABUL 17 August 2005 Maiwand Hospital Shabana in the recovery room with her mother The previous day she underwent a four hour plastic surgery operation She will be dismissed in two days Friday the 19th 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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