Sick Iraqi Infant to Be Treated in Ohio

Posted on Thu, May. 20, 2004

Sick Iraqi Infant to Be Treated in Ohio

ANITA CHANG
Associated Press


COLUMBUS, Ohio - An 8-month-old Iraqi girl with a possibly fatal growth in her neck arrived in the United States for free treatment, weeks after her parents brought her to a U.S. military base in her homeland.

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Fatemah was blue when she arrived at the base last month, and it took doctors three days to stabilize her, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

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One doctor, Lt. Col. Todd Fredricks of Ohio, contacted Children's Hospital in Columbus, which decided it would treat Fatemah at no cost if she could get there.

Rep. Ted Strickland, D-Ohio, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller , D-W.Va., helped with visas for the infant and her 21-year-old mother, Beyda'a Amir Abdul Jabar. The 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base arranged travel to Columbus.




more... http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/8713850.htm

they show the best of human nature.

You don't want to spoil the feel-good story of the year

:hi:

our collateral damage has caused in Iraq.

for exposure to DU. Perhaps that is where the lump came from.

in GWI?

During the treatment, a Kurdish family will host the pair, who are part of Iraq's Kurdish ethnic minority.

DU was my first thought also.

But I wish they would give my daughter free medical treatment if her life was in danger.

You know in Iraq, under Saddam, this girl would have had free medical treatment also, and without having her family's house leveled.

PB