10-year old with rare disease hopes to stay in the U.S. to continue her treatment
10-year old with rare disease hopes to stay in the U.S. to continue her treatment
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A 10-year old girl in Kalamazoo has a rare disease, and her family said she needs to stay in the U.S. to continue treatment. Lumar Jalil has Morquio Syndrome, and doctors said her body doesn’t produce a specific enzyme, so she has bony skeletal abnormalities.
“Everybody is amazed at how she copes with her disease,” said Dr. Katharina Elliott, physician in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Bronson.
Kalamazoo Family Hopes To Stay in U.S. to Save Young Daughter
While it is a personal belief of mine that the United States is in dire need of a health care overhaul, there s no denying the fact that, medically, our technology and resources exceed a few other countries.
That being said, there s a family in Kalamazoo that s trying to find a way to stay in our country to save their daughter who is battling a rare disease.
Allow me to introduce Lumar Jalil, a 10 year old girl who has Morquio Syndrome, as reported by WWMT News Channel 3. Morquio Syndrome is described as
Dad fears 10-year-old daughter with rare disease will die if family must return to Iraq
Updated May 05, 2021;
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KALAMAZOO, MI Without funds needed to pay back the Iraqi government, Erfan Kareem fears his 10-year-old daughter, Lumar Jalil, will be forced to go back to the country, and she will die.
Lumar is a “sweet and spunky 10-year-old girl” who was born in Iraq, her father said in an interview with MLive on May 4. When she was a toddler, her family came to the United States so that her father could go to college, under an agreement that they would return to Iraq after he graduated, Kareem said.
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