#medical-blockade

#medical-blockade

Jamal's nine-year-old body is paralysed. He experiences constant, uncontrollable, violent spasms. He cannot sleep through them. Nor can his mother. To keep the spasms under control, a drug called baclofen is required. It relaxes the muscles and stops the shaking. Suddenly halting the use of baclofen can have serious health consequences. Jamal's mother, my cousin Shaima, wrote to me from the family's tent in al-Mawasi displacement camp in Gaza a week ago.