Child health Archives

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Qatar steps in to secure million-dollar treatment for three-year-old Iraqi with genetic disease

Those who are diagnosed with type 2 of SMA live between eight-to-10 years whereas ones with type 1 of SMA, its rarest form, do not live until the age of…

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Health & Wellbeing

Doctor tip: how to treat enlarged tonsils in your child

Parents are urged to consult an ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist if the symptoms occur constantly. If your child begins complaining of a sore throat, frequent ear discomfort, or…

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News

Qatar Red Crescent treats Afghan children with congenital heart defects

Qatar Red Crescent Society’s (QRCS) Afghanistan office has completed the third phase of the ‘Little Hearts’ program. A total of 60 catheterisation surgeries were successfully performed on children with congenital…

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Qatar pumps $3 million donation into Nevada centre for autistic children

Qatar initially proposed World Autism Awareness Day to the UN General Assembly in 2007. Qatar made a major donation to the Touro University Nevada’s Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities…

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Sidra Medicine saves young boy’s life with complex epilepsy surgery

The young boy, Salem, from Kuwait used to suffer 15-30 seizures a day. A team of medical professions at Sidra Medicine has successfully performed a hemispherotomy for the first time…

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Doctors perform rare tumour removal surgery on 10-year-old

The child’s struggle ended following a life-changing surgery. Al-Ahli hospital doctors managed to help a ten-year-old patient get her life back to normal after a successful yet complicated surgery was…

Child health