CANTON, Ohio – Little 9-year-old Shahad Salah is in northeast Ohio from Iraq. She’s in Canton for special surgery after her home was in the line of a missile attack. She suffered major injuries, but thanks to local doctors, her recovery is going great. Shahad’s mother, Shahlaa, said she is hopeful for her daughter thanks to Aultman Hospital’s specialists. When the missile hit their home...

View Video It was late December 2008 when Hadil Al-Sammouni went to bed in her home in Gaza, feeling safe, surrounded by family.  At 4 a.m. neighbors rushed in waking everyone up, yelling that their home was on fire.  Hadil`s father told some of the family members to go to an uncle`s house others ran elsewhere.  Hadil was separated from her mother.  She ran back in the burning home.  And it`s the last...

Watch Now. In in interview featured on Al Aan, PCRF-UAE Media Coordinator, Mazen Aloul spoke on how teams of volunteer doctors from across the globe travel on medical missions sponsored by the PCRF and deliver medical services worth millions of dollars. He also spoke about the fact that PCRF facilitates and co-ordinates this service that help improve the quality of life of children in Palestine, Lebanon and...

DUBAI // Rola Al Dalo discovered just two days after giving birth to her daughter why her baby never opened her eyes. “She would keep them closed all the time and I couldn’t understand why,” said Ms Al Dalo, from the Palestinian Territories. It was not until little Zain finally opened her eyelids that her mother realised her daughter had been born without visible eyes. Zain has microphthalmia,...

Watch Video of this story ROCHESTER/GAZA CITY (KTTC) – Some Rochester medical experts went global in September when they reached out to Gaza’s most vulnerable. Gaza is home to more than 1.6 million people. According to the CIA, almost 44% are 14-years-old or younger. A team of four traveled to Gaza in September for a week. It included: Jane Goergen (Nurse Anesthetist), Todd Lichty (Medtronic Representative),...

11-year old Bisan Al-Sallaq was featured in a news story by MBC. She was injured by an Israeli shell in January, 2009 and traveled to Dubai for cost-free treatment. Note, the video is in arabic.

One child Riester will not forget is a 6-year-old girl that he operated on in 2009 who lost her left leg when a terrorist missile struck her grandparents’ house in Baghdad; her right leg was mangled as well. She had already undergone six surgeries in Iraq to remove shrapnel from the right leg, but the leg remained twisted because of damage near her knee. Shahad Salah was brought to Ohio by the nonprofit organization...

Deema Sosebee said she had one simple thought when she reached the top Africa’s highest mountain on Feb. 23: It was cold. “It was 20 degrees (below zero) Celsius with the wind chill, andafter not sleeping in the cold night and having 50 percent oxygen, I wasn’t thinking about much up here. I also just wanted to get back down,” she wrote in an e-mail from the West Bank city of Ramallah, where she attends...

Long Island doctors help young Middle East girl who suffered fourth degree burns. Nebal Hani al Shamali appears to be like any typical 6 year old: running around, full of energy and a gap-toothed smile that extends ear to ear. But the 6 year old Middle Eastern girl barely made it out of her country before the riots started, on a pilgrimage to the United States for treatment due to an accident that left her...

5,882 meters. 19,298 feet. About the length of 54 football fields. That’s how far 14-year-old Deema Sosebee of Kent plans to climb for charity when she and a group of 10 volunteers attempt to scale Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, on Feb. 18 in Tanzania. “I am really excited for the climb and just psyched that I’m going to Africa, which has always been a big dream of mine,” Sosebee wrote in...