Heba with HI physical therapist Fadia | © HI
Heba with HI physical therapist Fadia | © HI
After being injured in an airstrike, Heba was urgently carried to the Al-Thawra hospital in Sa'dah. The wound on her left leg was so serious that she had to be amputated right away.
"When I woke up from coma two days later, I saw myself without my leg, I felt so miserable."
At the hospital, the Humanity & Inclusion team explained to her the possibility to get a prosthesis and to walk again. Three weeks later, the team took the measurements to produce the prosthesis. She has since made her first test with it.
Heba benefits from a rehabilitation program including balance exercises, gait training and strengthening exercises to allow her to walk with her artificial leg.
Heba is now able to go up and down the stairs. "Before, I was in bed and I couldn't stand up, walk or balance," she says. "I feel so happy to get my prosthesis! I want to go back to school. I hope that I can become a pharmacist," she explains.
In the future, she would like to buy a large piece of land to build a pharmacy and distribute free medicines to poor people.
