Will Yemeni girl keep her tryst with Tata Memorial?
Hanadi Ali Mosa (14) and her family would be praying that doctors at Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) should have kept her there a little longer. They were a happy lot on March 23, when doctors said they can return home – after nine months of chemotherapy treatment for blood cancer. The family is home now, but in a spot. “Violence in the Yemeni capital aggravated within 2-3 days of our arrival,” Hanadi’s father Ali (40) told dna from Aden. Ali is an English lecturer at the University of Aden. Hanadi has to undergo blood tests every two weeks to see if her blood cell count is under control. But in Yemen, priorities are different now.
In the last three weeks, the family has shifted three houses. Hanadi, father Ali, mother Ifthekaar (30) and three brothers – Mohanad (12), Ahmad (11) and Hadi (2) – stayed in an apartment in the neighbourhood of Masheeq in Crater area of Aden until three weeks ago. They had to leave most of their belongings behind and flee in a jiffy as shellings and firing intensified right across their house. “I packed my family in the car and decided to drive to my sister’s place in Al-Taqaniah. All we carried with us was Hanadi’s oral chemotherapy tablets. We could not have left those behind,” said Ali. A week ago, a missile struck the rooftop of Ali’s sister’s apartment. They were housed on the fifth floor. The missile brought down the sixth floor.
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