Thursday, 31 December, 2020 - 07:30
Patients wait for a consultation at a center for artificial limbs in the Libyan port city of Misrata. AFP
Asharq Al-Awsat
For Radwan Jibril, wounded in a bastion of Libya's 2011 revolution, losing his leg became "inevitable" and he had a prosthetic replacement, but thousands of other amputees are still waiting.
An orthopedic center is finally scheduled to open in March to provide prostheses to amputees in the country riven by conflict for the past decade.
Jibril, like so many others, was hit by shrapnel in his western hometown of Misrata, which endured a devastating siege during the revolt that brought down longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.