Iraq: Children living without limbs lack support

February 5, 2007
Iraq: Children living without limbs lack support

"When I ask NGOs or the government for a wheelchair for my child, or to pay for surgery or even an artificial leg, they just answer me by saying that people are dying every day and others getting
displaced and they don't have time to worry about just one child," Rand Muhammad, Barakat's
mother, said.

"The problem is that hundreds of children are suffering in Iraq with the same problem but are
not getting help from anyone. They have been put aside until the violence has been controlled and
the displaced return to their homes. But until that happens, they may die or they could be
seriously affected psychologically," she said.