Fanging from Gaza and in a state of strong denutrition, the story of Osama saved in Verona

Prime Minister Netanyahu had come to define the symbol photos of Osama, 5 years old, reduced skin and bones due to chronic malnutrition in Gaza, fake news. He had come to weigh 9 kg and two herits. “His condition is the result of a disease not of the lack of food” wrote the Israeli Prime Minister, in reply to the images that have spread by the Associated Press and the NBC News and shown by UNICEF.

Now the child Gazawo, who arrived in Verona on June 12 from the Nasser hospital in Khan Youunis, was able to resume his life after two months of care and a program of delicate re-nutrition that led him to increase his weight up to 14 kg. Now with his mother and brother, who for sixty days remained in the room with him thanks to social hospitalization programwill be transferred to a protected house to follow a program that will also combine the insertion in the community. At home, antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral prophylaxis will continue and it will be followed outlawed to control the trend of the weight curve and to better define the nature of the immune deficit.

“The investigations made so far,” explained Simone Cesaro, director of pediatric ounchematology of the Borgo Trento hospital in Verona, “have excluded some constitutional diseases, the cause of malabsorption, such as cystic fibrosis and celiac disease. However, genetic investigations are continuing. We believe that the moderate immune deficit condition, found in the patient, together with intercurrent intestinal infections and the environmental difficulties related to war were the cause of serious intestinal malabsorption and malnutrition found at the time of hospitalization. Now that the child is better and is able to take well orally both food in the free diet and drugs, it can be discharged. This will also allow mother and a healthy little brother to exit the hospital room for the first time after now over 60 days of hospitalization. The continuation of the exams and checks will be made with weekly visits to the clinic ».

Together with Osama, Zafir, a 14 -month -old boy suffering from a serious pathology to the internal organs, who remains hospitalized in Borgo Trento, also arrived in Italy. The Hospital-University of Padua is instead dealing with an 8-year-old boy with eye injuries and another eleven-year-old boy with burns and face trauma. Each of these children is followed in a personalized clinical path, which also includes psychological assistance.