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Edwin from Cumana, Venezuela, finally has suitable prosthetics!
Dr Ana Maria de Abaffy Steffens, a plastic surgeon from Caracas, Venezuela, asked for help last spring in providing prosthetics and effective physiotherapy for little Edwin.
As a reminder:
Due to the dire economic situation in Venezuela, the healthcare sector is lacking, amongst other things, essential medicines. This proved to be Edwin’s undoing. He was in hospital in Cunamá with a severe infection affecting both his legs. As there was a shortage of the essential antibiotics needed to cure the infection, and Edwin would not have survived the impending blood poisoning, the surgeons decided, with a heavy heart, to amputate both his legs…
Edwin now needed to be fitted with prosthetic limbs and receive long-term physiotherapy. His parents do not have the money for this. Furthermore, the prosthetic limbs must be ordered from Germany, as they are currently unavailable in Venezuela.
The prosthetic limbs have now reached him, albeit via a few detours, and Edwin is making great progress!
His mother sends her thanks to all the donors!