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Mali baby undergoes life-changing surgery in Dubai
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10 months ago
A mother from Mali has journeyed to Dubai so her baby girl can undergo corrective eye surgery in Dubai.
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It's been a long journey for young Kari Mariam.
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She's travelled with her mother, Kajakita, thousands of miles from her village in Mali
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for life-changing surgery.
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Kari Mariam suffers from congenital glaucoma in both her eyes, and without medical help
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she could go blind.
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She was born with this disease, her mother had no means, so she came to us, to our service,
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to undergo a surgical intervention, but she had no means at all, and the project came in
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time, and it allowed us to come to Dubai, where we did a very advanced technique that we ourselves
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could not do at home in Mali.
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Nur Dubai has flown in specialists to carry out corrective eye surgeries.
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It's a government-sponsored project that treats patients from around the world.
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Dr. Lama Al-Asfad from Columbia University sometimes conducts six operations in a day.
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In children or infants, there's dysgenesis in the interior chamber, that means it didn't
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develop well, and the drainage area is not working and functioning as it's supposed to
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function.
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So we move you to inside the anterior part of the eye, so we go in with a knife and cut
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some of the dysgenesis in the anterior chamber, so we tilt the microscope 45 degrees, we enter
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the eye and cut some of the dysgenesis inside the eye.
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Congenital glaucoma, some of them you do this technique and that's it, and it's cured or
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controlled, but a lot of them you need to do more surgeries in the future.
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A successful surgery for Kari Mariam.
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Both corneas have been cleared.
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Doctors say she will recover quickly.
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She will need glasses as she grows up.
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But Kajakita and Kari Mariam still face difficulties when they head back home to Mali.
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