Juarez City.- At only 2 years and two months old, Rebeca has had two surgeries to reconstruct her left ear, because thanks to the will of a religious group and the border community, her family was able to pay 110,000 pesos. However, she must continue with the treatments for a year, which will be difficult to sustain due to the economic deprivation of her parents.
Lizbeth Mojica Tavarez, mother of the minor, commented that her daughter suffers from cerebral palsy, speech and foot problems; For this reason, she must take her to various specialists to treat her pathologies, and the treatment she needs consists of injections that cost 1,500 pesos each, an amount that is difficult for her to collect each month because she and her husband are informal vendors. .
Mojica mentioned that, in addition to covering the injections, she must pay 600 pesos in psychological therapies weekly and take her to the orthopedist to be checked because she has flat feet, and she will have to wear orthopedic shoes and insoles until she is 9 years old.
“After the first operation, the surgeon did not tell me that I had to undergo treatment after the surgery, so, since I did not see that her little ear improved, I took her to another surgeon, and he was the one who told me that she needed to undergo treatment. monthly for a year, and they are steroid injections so that the ear does not close again or the meat bandage is made again, and the little balls that it had like warts, “explained Mojica.
In addition to these conditions, Rebeca has speech problems and also underwent a frenulum operation in the first intervention, for this reason she must be in psychological therapy, said the mother of the minor.
Lizbeth Mojica and her husband work doing various activities to be able to cover the costs of the treatments she requires to improve her health. The family lives in the El Granjero neighborhood and sells second clothes and various items in markets.
For donations you can contact the phone (656) 174-4007, or you can make deposits to the BBVA bank, to the account number 4152 3137 8747 7335, in the name of Lizbeth Mojica Tavarez.
