Meet Abdirahman, a one-year-old baby boy from Somalia.
“Abdirahman has been having issues feeding, which is a common complaint for children with hydrocephalus,” our medical partner Edna Adan Hospital explains to us. Hydrocephalus is a condition in which fluid accumulates in the skull, which causes brain swelling.
With this condition, Abdirahman is unable to sit by himself. His mother brought Abdirahman from their hometown to the hospital hoping they could help.
For $640, we can pay for a surgical shunting procedure to remove excess fluid from Abdirahman’s brain, which will decrease the size of his head and give him a chance to grow up healthy. “His mother was very happy to find out that more treatment was available!” his doctors say.