Mali baby undergoes life-changing surgery in Dubai

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A mother from Mali has journeyed to Dubai so her baby girl can undergo corrective eye surgery in Dubai.

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00:00It's been a long journey for young Kari Mariam.

00:08She's travelled with her mother, Kajakita, thousands of miles from her village in Mali

00:13for life-changing surgery.

00:15Kari Mariam suffers from congenital glaucoma in both her eyes, and without medical help

00:20she could go blind.

00:21She was born with this disease, her mother had no means, so she came to us, to our service,

00:28to undergo a surgical intervention, but she had no means at all, and the project came in

00:35time, and it allowed us to come to Dubai, where we did a very advanced technique that we ourselves

00:42could not do at home in Mali.

00:44Nur Dubai has flown in specialists to carry out corrective eye surgeries.

00:49It's a government-sponsored project that treats patients from around the world.

00:53Dr. Lama Al-Asfad from Columbia University sometimes conducts six operations in a day.

01:00In children or infants, there's dysgenesis in the interior chamber, that means it didn't

01:22develop well, and the drainage area is not working and functioning as it's supposed to

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01:28So we move you to inside the anterior part of the eye, so we go in with a knife and cut

01:34some of the dysgenesis in the anterior chamber, so we tilt the microscope 45 degrees, we enter

01:40the eye and cut some of the dysgenesis inside the eye.

01:53Congenital glaucoma, some of them you do this technique and that's it, and it's cured or

02:00controlled, but a lot of them you need to do more surgeries in the future.

02:14A successful surgery for Kari Mariam.

02:17Both corneas have been cleared.

02:19Doctors say she will recover quickly.

02:22She will need glasses as she grows up.

02:24But Kajakita and Kari Mariam still face difficulties when they head back home to Mali.

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