A heartwarming video of an Afghan boy dancing with pure joy in hospital after getting a prosthetic leg is going viral online and it will light up your mood.
Ahmad received artificial limb in @ICRC_af Orthopedic center, he shows his emotion with dance after getting limbs. He come from Logar and lost his leg in a landmine. This is how his life changed and made him smile. pic.twitter.com/Sg7jJbUD2V
— Roya Musawi (@roya_musawi) May 6, 2019
Five years old Rehman, dressed in a traditional cobalt blue Payraan was recorded dancing at an International Red Cross orthopaedic centre in Afghanistan after receiving a prosthetic replacement. The boy reportedly lost his right limb in a landmine explosion in the Logar region of Afghanistan.
“We were caught between an ongoing battle between the Afghan forces and the Taliban. Rehman and sister got shot at. While my daughter suffered bullet wounds to her kidney and legs, Rehman’s right leg was badly injured,” Sayeed Rehman’s mother Raesa told The National. Raesa, who like most Afghans goes only by one name, also lost her brother and nephew in that same attack.
“We rushed the injured to the Emergency clinic at the provincial centre; Rehman’s injuries were so severe he had to be hospitalised for a month-and-a-half,” she recalled.
Soon after his leg was amputated.
The years that followed were particularly hard for Raesa, who has worked as a farm labourer to support her family of seven since her ailing husband has been unable to work. “These kind of attacks happen very frequently in our area. There are times we can’t even step out of the house for chores and work,” she said.
The added cost of medical treatment for Sayeed Rehman has been an additional burden for the family.
“I would take him to clinics everyday, carrying him in my arms,” Raesa said. “I looked after his recovery, and did all this while working in the farms. There is no one else to take care of us so it fell on me. I was mentally broken, too.”
Despite the hardship, Sayeed Rehman has grown into a loving and energetic child. “He became so happy when he first got his leg,” Raesa said. “He would walk and run in the fields. He sings and dances all the time. He is a very jovial kid who loves to make jokes. Everyone who met him gets so happy.”
Unfortunately, they cannot send him school because of the terror attacks in the area but Raesa is hopeful about Rehman’s future.
