{"id":24903,"date":"2018-12-10T00:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24903"},"modified":"2018-12-10T00:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:24:18","slug":"syrian-girl-born-without-legs-walks-on-new-prosthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24903","title":{"rendered":"Syrian girl born without legs walks on new prosthetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1418251\/middle-east\" readability=\"51\">\n<p>\nSERJILLA, Syria: Eight-year-old Maya Merhi had to struggle around a Syrian displaced persons camp on artificial limbs made of plastic tubing and tin cans.<br \/>But now the girl, who was born with no legs due to a congenital condition, is walking on new prosthetics after undergoing treatment in Turkey.<br \/>Pictures of her plight, including those taken by AFP in Syria, were seen around the world in June, and she was taken to Istanbul for the life-changing procedure.<br \/>Dressed in a pink sweater and matching shoes, Maya on Saturday was able for the first time to walk along the rutted roads of the Serjilla camp after arriving back.<br \/>Finally she joined in the games and dancing with the other children.<br \/>\u201cI was so happy when I saw her walking,\u201d says her father Mohammed, sitting in their makeshift tent.<br \/>\u201cThe whole family and all our loved ones were so happy.\u201d<br \/>Mohammed suffers the same condition as his daughter, known as congenital amputation which means the person is born without lower limbs.<br \/>He cobbled together the homemade prosthetics on which she used to shuffle around the camp.<br \/>Originally from Aleppo region, the father and daughter had to move to rebel-held Idlib province as fighting from Syria\u2019s civil war began to rage around their home.<br \/>After the pictures of Maya\u2019s difficulties sparked attention across the globe, the Turkish Red Crescent intervened.<br \/>The father and daughter were evacuated from Syria by the Turkish authorities and brought to Istanbul for treatment at a specialized clinic.<br \/>Mohammed received prosthetic limbs as well, but admits that he isn\u2019t yet as steady on them as his daughter.<br \/>Sitting on a foam mattress, his daughter unwraps the artificial legs and attaches them.<br \/>\u201cTo begin with there were difficulties getting used to them,\u201d says her uncle Hussein, who accompanied his brother and niece to Turkey.<br \/>\u201cAll of a sudden she found herself up high on the new prosthetics.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SERJILLA, Syria: Eight-year-old Maya Merhi had to struggle around a Syrian displaced persons camp on artificial limbs made of plastic tubing and tin cans.But now the girl, who was born with no legs due to a congenital condition, is walking on new prosthetics after undergoing treatment in Turkey.Pictures of her plight, including those taken by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}