Mrs. Asma Al-Assad visits the child, MurtedaKinar after his recovery from a complicated bone marrow/stem cell transplant

Damascus, (ST) –  Murtada Kinar (9 year-s old) recovered after a complicated transplant procedure  of blood stem cells.

According to the medical team, the operation was successful as it allowed the re formation of the bone-marrow, and thus the re-production of white blood cells, hemoglobin and platelets.

Mrs. Asma Al-Assad visited on Wednesday the child at his house in Damascus countryside checking on his health, sharing his happiness and listening to his tales about what he had lived through during the period of the operation.

Murtada is the first child who has undergone that operation at the Center of Blood Stem Cells and the Cell Therapy in Damascus which was opened by Mrs. Asma Al-Assad last June to be the first of its kind in Syria.

The child, Murtada suffered from Neuroblastoma (NB) which is considered as one the most dangerous cancers and tumors that afflict children.

Raghda Sawas