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A shy 13-yr-old Alaa Ali Al-Saleem walked in tow with his mother to our clinic in Amman, Jordan with cold, cough, chest congestion symptoms. While he was four years older than his 9-year-old sister, he was the same height as her.
His mother consistently shared his upper respiratory complaints with our volunteer physician, Dr. Naznin Jamal and casually mentioned that Alaa had Hepatitis C.
Completely unaware of its complications on her child’s life, Alaa’s mother was counseled by the local doctor to give her son “honey and sweet things” to cure the disease.
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