KarunaNews Story

Today is her last chance to wear her sparkly new shoes, bought for a party last week. Tomorrow, the 12-year-old Iraqi will have a leg amputated. She is among up to 110 war-wounded patients who are treated at the Médecins Sans Frontières Mowasah hospital in Amman, Jordan, at any time. A further 400 are on the waiting list, with 8,500 surgeries already under its belt. It is a center of excellence for reconstructive and orthopedic surgery combined with physiotherapeutic and psychological care, for the war-wounded. “There is not another surgical place like this hospital in the world – we are uniquely specialized,” says hospital director Roshan Kumarasamy. “This is not the MSF lifesaving frontline operation per se; this is quality of life in the aftermath.”