Born in a war zone. Scarred for life. 

The World’s Shirin Jaafari brings us the story of a 5-year-old boy who was born in Idlib, Syria, and was left paralyzed because the hospital where he was born didn’t have the right equipment while the area was under air attacks. Syria’s medical system has been decimated in the decade-old war.

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