Patient Story: Shireno can finally walk again without pain
Shireno has traveled more than 5,000 km from her home country of Afghanistan to get well again. The 11-year-old has a complicated bone inflammation that no one has been able to treat. She found help from PD Dr. med. Koroush Kabir at the Helios University Hospital in Wuppertal.
It must have been unimaginable pain that Shireno felt every day in her still young life: The 11-year-old suffered from a chronic infection of the hip and groin with multi-resistant germs. To make the pain more bearable, she adopted a protective hip position, and her body adapted accordingly. She could not be helped in Afghanistan due to the complexity of the disease. Fortunately, the Peace Village International became aware of her and brought her to Germany in March of this year.
But even here it was not easy to find a medical doctor who could do justice to the complicated treatment. The Helios University Hospital in Wuppertal was the right place: With PD Dr. med. Koroush Kabir, Director of the Clinic for Trauma Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. "The treatment of Shireno's condition was very extensive because the inflammation was far advanced," the clinic director reports. It was not clear, he says, whether the infection and the girl's accompanying physical development could be treated at all. Dr. med. Kabir and his team dared to intervene: with success. The hospital stay following the operation involved months of treatment for Shireno. The 11-year-old had to cope with all this without the support of her parents, a burden for the child. "Without the great commitment of all colleagues, nurses as well as doctors, but also the commitment of Helios and the Peace Village, Shireno would not be here today," Dr. med. Kabir proudly reports. For example, when the girl was so homesick that she didn't want to eat, the nurses in the children's ward brought her a kebab. Gestures like these helped the 11-year-old find her smile again.
Today, Shireno reports, she is pain-free and beaming with joy. She can already tell the clinic director, Dr. med. Kabir, about this in German, the foreign language she is learning in the Peace Village in Oberhausen, during the preliminary final examination. She feels good in Germany, but is still looking forward to her home country and her family in Afghanistan. It will be a little while before she returns, however. "She still needs a few sessions of physiotherapy so that her gait improves even more and she learns many exercises that she can continue at home," reports Saskia Kosi from Friedensdorf International Oberhausen. The cooperation between Friedensdorf International and the Helios University Hospital in Wuppertal has existed for many years.
Shireno's return flight is planned for March 2023, one year after her arrival in Germany. She is particularly looking forward to this.
