{"id":10025518,"date":"2024-06-25T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/?p=10025518"},"modified":"2024-11-07T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T13:13:20","slug":"mussaab-from-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/en\/cleft-children\/mussaab-from-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mussa\u2019ab from Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mussa\u2019ab is standing with his mother in the waiting area of \u200b\u200bthe Karamara General Hospital in Jijiga, Ethiopia<\/a>. In June 2023, during our second aid mission in the eastern Ethiopian city<\/a>, the rush of families with children with cleft lip and palate<\/a> is even greater than during our first mission six months earlier. Mother and son have been waiting for several hours. It is finally their turn to be admitted. Both are as happy to see us again as we are to see them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mussa’ab came to our first aid mission in Jijiga in 2022. We still remember the cheerful boy very well. His family lives in Somalia. They move as nomads with their cattle through the arid region. Not an easy life: The family suffered greatly from the recent drought, which meant less drinking water and pasture for the animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Mussa\u2019ab was born with a cleft lip and palate, the family did not know that Mussa\u2019ab\u2019s cleft could be treated. They were worried about their child. When Mussa\u2019ab\u2019s mother heard about our first aid mission with a team of experienced DCKH partner surgeons from Bangladesh <\/a> in Jijiga, they set off on the long journey to Ethiopia with renewed hope. Our German volunteer surgeon Dr. Ulrike Laml\u00e9 closed Mussa\u2019ab\u2019s cleft palate in a first operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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