By Raji Unnikrishnan
A Bahraini family has made a desperate appeal for treatment to help ease the suffering of their three children stricken by a rare muscular disorder.
Fahad, nine, and twin sisters Judy and Joorie, seven, have been diagnosed with type three Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a genetic condition that weakens muscles and impairs movement.
Their father, Mohammed Idris, had thought he had secured funding to take their children abroad but claims this has recently been rejected.
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