Injured Syrian boy, West Bank girl arrive in Houston for surgery
This week, two children with orthopedic defects arrived in Houston for humanitarian care by doctors at Texas Orthopedic Hospital in Houston. 14 y old Mohammed Jammous lost his leg from a tank shell last August in Syria and is the first injured Syrian child to come to Texas for donated care. He will be examined at Texas Orthopedic Hospital by Dr. Gary Brock, of the Fondren Orthopedic Group, on Thursday, for possible stump revision and future prosthesis.
A girl from the West Bank, Fatima Asafar, will have hip replacement surgery at Texas Orthopedic Hospital by Dr. Greg Stocks, also with the Fondren Orthopedic Group. Dr. Stocks led an orthopedic surgery mission to the West Bank last July.
The children were brought to Houston by an American organization called The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a non-political, non-profit organization dedicated to healing the wounds of war, occupation and poverty for children in the Middle East. The children are being cared for by host families in the Houston area. They did not come with their families.
If you would like to cover this humanitarian story of the surgeons at Texas Orthopedic Hospital and their ability to assist a victim of war and an ailing girl receive the care that they need, please contact Karen Bard, at (713) 794-3550.
Mohammed’s amputation was surprisingly in pretty good condition. He will not require additional stump revision. He will be fitted for a custom prosthetic donated by Care Prosthetics and Orthotics (CPO), one of the companies that Texas Orthopedic Hospital utilizes for prosthetics.
Fatima underwent a hip replacement on March 1 with Dr. Gregory Stocks and the surgery went extremely well. Fatima will remain at Texas Orthopedic Hospital during her recovery and will return for follow up appointments after discharge. She is shown here walking the halls post surgery. She is smiling and although not completely without pain since it is only a couple of days after her surgery, she is doing great.
She is keeping her family updated on her progress and speaks with them daily via Skype. Both Fatima and her family could not be happier with the outcome!
