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Wounded Iraqi Boy Hospitalized in Kuwait
Aired April 16, 2003 - 14:52 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: He lost his arms and most of his family when coalition bombs hit his home in Iraq. Now 12-year-old Ali Hamza asks reporters and strangers, can you help me get my arms back?
The world has responded to his plea. The little boy was flown to Kuwait late yesterday for medical treatment. CNN's Jason Bellini is covering his story.
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JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Young Ali now in the sterile confines in Kuwait City, his doctor performing the first procedures required to save him from the infection requiring him to leave the hospital in Baghdad and come to Kuwait where they'll begin grafting skin to treat the burns on 30 percent of his body, affecting mostly the torso area where the burns went all through his layers of skin.
Ali's primary concern is his arms, both of which were taken off in the missile blast which also killed 16 members of his family, including his mother, his stepfather, two sisters, a brother and several cousins.
You know, Ali was greeted by journalists snapping photos of him as he was lifted from the ambulance that brought him to the burn treatment center in Kuwait City last night at around 3:00 a.m. He will remain here until he receives his prosthetic limbs, which the doctor says he's likely to receive funding for from donations from people who have called in with concern about him around the world.
Now that he has become a symbol of the human toll of war, he is among other young Iraqis also in that same hospital suffering from painful life-threatening burns. His doctor has already treated five other Iraqi youths, also victims of a tragedy growing in its scale. But now some young people receiving the treatment that they require.
Jason Bellini, CNN, Kuwait City.
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Aired April 16, 2003 - 14:52 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: He lost his arms and most of his family when coalition bombs hit his home in Iraq. Now 12-year-old Ali Hamza asks reporters and strangers, can you help me get my arms back?
The world has responded to his plea. The little boy was flown to Kuwait late yesterday for medical treatment. CNN's Jason Bellini is covering his story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Young Ali now in the sterile confines in Kuwait City, his doctor performing the first procedures required to save him from the infection requiring him to leave the hospital in Baghdad and come to Kuwait where they'll begin grafting skin to treat the burns on 30 percent of his body, affecting mostly the torso area where the burns went all through his layers of skin.
Ali's primary concern is his arms, both of which were taken off in the missile blast which also killed 16 members of his family, including his mother, his stepfather, two sisters, a brother and several cousins.
You know, Ali was greeted by journalists snapping photos of him as he was lifted from the ambulance that brought him to the burn treatment center in Kuwait City last night at around 3:00 a.m. He will remain here until he receives his prosthetic limbs, which the doctor says he's likely to receive funding for from donations from people who have called in with concern about him around the world.
Now that he has become a symbol of the human toll of war, he is among other young Iraqis also in that same hospital suffering from painful life-threatening burns. His doctor has already treated five other Iraqi youths, also victims of a tragedy growing in its scale. But now some young people receiving the treatment that they require.
Jason Bellini, CNN, Kuwait City.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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