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Palestinian girl ‘gasping for air’ as mother uses makeshift device to save her
6 May 2025 06:38 BST
After doctors narrowly saved Maram Manaa’s daughter from a life-threatening asthma attack, she pleaded for proper treatment to stop the attacks from returning.
The Palestinian mother of three waited anxiously at her daughter’s bedside in a field hospital in central Gaza.
When the doctor finally returned, he was holding a plastic water bottle.
It had been fashioned into a makeshift spacer, connected to an inhaler far too strong for a child that age.
“This is all we’ve got,” he told her.
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