The Syrian boy who stopped growing & the EU country giving him hope
He fled Idlib in Syria with his parents, two sisters and brother, two and a half years ago, and since then they have been living as refugees in Lebanon, where the family grew with the birth of his youngest brother.
Although he looks around four years old, Omar is actually seven. He has a dysfunctional pituitary gland that means he has stopped growing for three years.
He was being treated in Syria before the country’s civil war broke out but treatment in Lebanon was too expensive for his family, or even aid agencies to afford. Without treatment, Omar will quite literally never grow up.
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