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| 5-year-old Nimo Salan waits in her home in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya..... |
DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP, KENYA: The doctors told Timiro Hassan that her daughter could survive. The kidney cancer could be treated.
Even though the United Nations couldn't pay for it, even though the chemotherapy wasn't available here, there was one option that for decades had saved the lives of Somali refugees in need of medical care. Five-year-old Nimo Salan could be resettled in America.
"Level: Emergency," U.N. officials wrote on her file.
"If she doesn't get resettled, she'll die," said one of her doctors, Aden Hassan Abdi, the clinical service coordinator with the Islamic Relief aid group.
Even though the United Nations couldn't pay for it, even though the chemotherapy wasn't available here, there was one option that for decades had saved the lives of Somali refugees in need of medical care. Five-year-old Nimo Salan could be resettled in America.
"If she doesn't get resettled, she'll die," said one of her doctors, Aden Hassan Abdi, the clinical service coordinator with the Islamic Relief aid group.
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