'Why is nobody saving our little sister?' - children make anguished plea

A household from Halifax is successful a contention against clip to rise wealth to supply the medicine indispensable to dainty three-year-old Dua Ahmed's highly uncommon familial disease

Three children whose sister faces being paralysed by a uncommon illness are asking their parent wherefore nary 1 is stepping successful to help.

Dua Ahmed, three, was diagnosed with SPG50 past year, making her lone 1 of 2 children successful the UK to endure from it.

Her parent Nadia, 38, is successful a contention against clip to springiness her the medicine needed to halt the familial illness taking distant her daughter’s quality to determination and speak.

She has acceptable up a GoFundMe leafage to rise the £250,000 needed for Dua to person a proceedings attraction successful the US.

Nadia, from Halifax, West Yorks, said: “It’s an immense unit for each of us. It’s betwixt redeeming my girl and losing her. The worst-case script is Dua volition suffer each movement, beryllium wholly paralysed and we volition suffer her. We cognize the attraction is acceptable successful a fridge successful the US. That’s conscionable crazy.”

Nadia says of her different 3 children, Ayaan, 11, Raees, seven, and one-year-old Zoraiz: “They can’t recognize the conception of, if she tin beryllium saved, wherefore isn’t she? They say; ‘Why is cipher redeeming her?

“She is three-and-a-half present and the degeneration kicks successful astatine 5 from erstwhile children they person seen.”