Delhi hospital treats Iraqi girl’s rare disease

A 19-year-old Iraqi girl has been given a new lease of life after a team of doctors from the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital here successfully treated her for a rare spinal disease.

Nuha Mohanad Hani was suffering from spinal arteriovenous malformation (AVM), in which there is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels in or near the spinal cord. She was hospitalised with progressive quadriplegia — paralysis caused by illness or injury resulting into partial or total loss of use of all the four limbs and torso. (IANS)