Heba learns to walk with a prosthesis

After being injured in an airstrike, Heba was urgently carried to the Al-Thawra hospital in Sa'dah. The wound on her left leg was so serious that she had to be amputated right away.

"When I woke up from coma two days later, I saw myself without my leg, I felt so miserable."

At the hospital, the Humanity & Inclusion team explained to her the possibility to get a prosthesis and to walk again. Three weeks later, the team took the measurements to produce the prosthesis. She has since made her first test with it.

Heba benefits from a rehabilitation programme including balance exercises, gait training and strengthening exercises to allow her to walk with her artificial leg.

Self-esteem

Heba is now able to go up and down the stairs. "Before, I was in bed and I couldn't stand up, walk or balance," she says. "I feel so happy to get my prosthesis! I want to go back to school. I hope that I can become a pharmacist," she explains.

In the future, she would like to buy a large piece of land to build a pharmacy and distribute free medicines to poor people.