19 Dec, 2009
A doctor’s mission to save Ethiopian children’s lives
Posted by: admin In: Around Beijing| News
By Charlene Gubash, NBC News Producer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Doctors, nurses, family members and an NBC cameraman fanned out across the hospital in an all-out search for Aden. But the 6-year-old managed to evade us as she flitted from patient to nursing station, the hospital staff shouting out her location in the hospital atrium: “She was just here, but I think she’s gone to visit pre-op!”
Aden Eshetu had made lots of friends during her two-week hospital stay and seemed bent on seeing each and every one before her check-up. Suddenly she appeared in the corridor, strolling hand-in-hand with a nurse, an exuberant smile on her round face. She greeted her doctor with a big kiss on the cheek before hopping onto the examining table.
Incredibly, Aden had not always been so full of vigor.
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“Before the treatment she couldn’t run properly,” explained her mother, Namestsigye Bire. ”She couldn’t play with her friends. But now she is OK. She can play as long as she wants.”
“If she had not been treated at this hospital she would have suffered more and died,” said Bire, her eyes filling with tears.
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