TUNISIA (June 15, 2011) The nine-year-old boy was playing outside his house in Libya when a sniper shot him in the head.
Relatives were able to get him to a hospital across the border in Tunisia, where refugees from the ongoing war have fled. Doctors twice operated on the boy’s brain. It still was enlarged when a Portland, Oregon, physician volunteering with Medical Teams International (MTI) visited the hospital recently and met the boy.
Despite the boy’s ordeal, he was in good condition, the doctor says. The boy’s father told the physician that his son’s healing was “a miracle of God.” read more…