Source: IRIN
Country: Afghanistan
Behind an iron gate in a mud-brick home in southern Afghanistan, one of the country’s newest polio patients is still learning how to walk.
Three-year-old Farid Ahmad teeters forward, his uncle hovering closely behind.
“He is so weak, mainly his hands and legs,” Abdul Jalil says, watching as the boy roams unsteadily inside the family’s compound here in Spin Boldak District, which stretches to the Pakistan border in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province. “Sometimes when he tries to walk, he falls down.”
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