A baby in Gaza who was blind from birth has been given the gift of sight thanks to a team of Israeli medics.
This wonderfully heart-warming story - just right for an icy-cold holiday season - was picked up by the 'Haifa Diarist', Stuart Palmer, who after a career in international marketing, knows a superb story when he sees one.
He writes: "A build up of fluid causing pressure within the eyeball is called glaucoma and it’s not "Good News". When that condition is present at birth then the baby is blind and requires very intricate surgery.
"This is what happened to Halla, a little girl from the Gaza Strip who was brought to the Carmel Medical Centre in Haifa (just five minutes down the road from where I live) at the age of ten months and blind from birth. Ophthalmologists at the hospital performed two operations one after the other, the first, to drain the fluid and the second and more complicated procedure, to implant microscopic tubes to maintain the drainage process."The fairy tale ending – Halla can see, she reacts to her surroundings, she smiles, she laughs, she’s putting on weight and doing all the things that a ten month old baby should be doing. With all the expenses being met by the Peres Peace Centre all her overjoyed parents need to do is take her back home.
"This beats all the negative ideology being spewed out on the Gazans' radio, TV and newspapers."
In fact, we can say little Halla is now "as right as rain".
- The picture above, from the Sunday Times, is for illustration only.
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