Karachi:
As soon as Cider on Bordereni, eight years old, returned from the clinic with his prosthetic arm, got into a bicycle in the Jordanian refugee camp where he lives, traveling for the first time since a missile strike in Gaza took his arm a year ago.
Cider was injured while protected at the Nuseirat school, one of several Gaza schools became improvised shelters of Israeli strikes.
His mother knows the bordeeni, said that Gaza’s collapsed health services and the inability of the family to leave at that time made it impossible to save their hand.
“She is playing, and all her friends and brothers are fascinated by her arm,” he said to the bordeeni on the phone, repeatedly thanking God for this day. “I can’t express how grateful I am to see my daughter happy.”
The arm was built more than 4,000 kilometers away in Karachi by Bioniks, a Pakistani company that uses an application for smartphones to take photos from different angles and create a 3D model for custom prostheses.
The CEO Anas Niaz said that the social company startup had conceded in more than 1,000 arms custom -designed within Pakistan since 2021, financed through a combination of patient payments, corporate sponsorship and donations, but this was the first time it provided prostheses to the impacted in conflicts.
Cider and Hebebat Allah, three years old, who lost his arms and a leg in Gaza, went through days of remote consultations and virtual accessories. Then Niaz flew from Karachi to Amman to meet the girls and make the first delivery abroad of his company.
The cider device was financed by the Mafaz clinic in Amman, while Pakistanis donations paid those of Habat. The CEO of Mafaz, Entesar Asaker, said that the clinic was associated with Bioniks for its low costs, remote solutions and its ability to solve problems virtually.
