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The perilous journey to get treatment in war-torn Yemen

A 55-year-old father travels twice a week from his village to Yemen’s capital Sanaa for his teenage son’s dialysis treatment.

18-year-old Ahsan Abdou suffers from kidney failure, and without a transplant the young Yemeni’s situation is dire.
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