Abu Dhabi: Two years back, when Ali Ibrahim Mohamed Al Ameri and Shaima Abdulraheem Al Hosani first sought surgery to straighten their son’s eyes, it meant a long journey to a leading hospital in Boston. The Emirati couple, he with ADNOC and she in a government finance department, could have sought care anywhere. When seven-year-old Mohammed needed a second, more complex procedure years later, they stayed in Abu Dhabi.
Mohammed lives with a neurological condition that affects his balance and coordination, and he moves with the help of a walker. Over time, his eyes had begun to drift outward, a condition doctors call strabismus (when the two eyes do not point in the same direction). His three doting sisters noticed it before anyone else.
