Paralysed Children

Wearing a robotic exoskeleton designed especially for children, an eight-year-old boy with cerebral palsy walked through a therapy room in Mexico City, smiling triumphantly at the once-unthinkable feat.

AFM is caused by inflammation of the spinal cord that results in severe muscle weakness and paralysis. More than 400 confirmed cases, most of them in children, have been reported in the past four years, and one child with AFM died last year.

Kuber, the eldest son of a sweet shop owner in Agra, is getting ready to go to the mosque to offer his prayers on the occasion of Shab-e-Baraat. But six of his brothers and sisters cannot accompany him because of a rare neurological disorder called Canavan that has left them weaker and more paralysed with each passing year.

The parents of two children paralysed by illness have appealed for mercy killing of their children because they are simply too poor to take care of them or to get them treated.

Wearing a robotic exoskeleton designed especially for children, an eight-year-old boy with cerebral palsy walked through a therapy room in Mexico City, smiling triumphantly at the once-unthinkable feat.

AFM is caused by inflammation of the spinal cord that results in severe muscle weakness and paralysis. More than 400 confirmed cases, most of them in children, have been reported in the past four years, and one child with AFM died last year.

Kuber, the eldest son of a sweet shop owner in Agra, is getting ready to go to the mosque to offer his prayers on the occasion of Shab-e-Baraat. But six of his brothers and sisters cannot accompany him because of a rare neurological disorder called Canavan that has left them weaker and more paralysed with each passing year.

The parents of two children paralysed by illness have appealed for mercy killing of their children because they are simply too poor to take care of them or to get them treated.