Gloria
Abeka, is a 12 year old girl from Accra, Ghana. She has Blount’s
disease which caused her legs to bend inwards below the knee… making her
dependent upon a wheelchair. She has never been able to stand, walk, or
play with her friends.
After
a charity appeal, Vel Sakthivel, an orthopaedic surgeon at Southampton
Children’s Hospital, offered to operate. He was forced to break each of
her legs in three places so as to reshape them.
Gloria,
pictured with her mother, Mercy Yeboah (right) will spend more than
eight months in the UK recovering from the operations to correct her
bowed legs, which also involved pinning them with 22 screws.
She
is now able to sit and stand and she will soon be able to walk and play
with friends for the first time. Gloria said the doctors who helped her
have changed her life.
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