Hope for sick Afghan boy

[memphiz]

KABUL -- Canadian military doctors poked, prodded and probed a dying Afghan boy yesterday before finally declaring him fit to fly to Ottawa on Canada Day for what they hope will be life-saving heart surgery. Five Canadian flight surgeons conducted X-rays, ultrasounds, blood pressure checks and blood tests on nine-year-old Djamshid Djan Popal, whose plight one of them discovered in a remote mountain village far from their base.

And Djamshid endured it all with nary a tear, "a brave son of Afghanistan," as one observer called him. The boy suffers from a congenital heart defect that cannot be corrected in his native country

[scm77]

If Steven Harper is elected Prime Minister, that poor boy will probably die because of all the cuts Harper will make to the healthcare programs. rofl rofl rofl Atleast according to Martin. :cantbeli:

P.S. Why is healthcare so important? No one in my family (including grandparents) has been to the hospital in years.