Video: Mum appeals to UAE leaders to save baby's life

Dubai - Aisha Hassan Ibrahim, a 16-month-old girl, suffers from the same disease as Iraqi baby Laveen, whose treatment was funded by Sheikh Mohammed earlier this month.

A second desperate mother, whose baby girl suffers from a life-threatening condition, has taken to social media with an appeal to the UAE's leaders to help save her daughter's life.

The video, posted by UAE resident Mariam Ali, comes after His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, stepped in to cover the exorbitant cost of treatment for Laveen, an Iraqi baby girl, earlier this month.

Aisha Hassan Ibrahim, a 16-month-old girl, suffers from the same disease as Laveen — spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) — but her condition is a bit more serious. The child is currently in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital in Dubai.

In a video posted by her mother earlier this week, Aisha can be seen sleeping in the ICU, with tubes inside her nose to help her breathe.

Speaking to Khaleej Times, Mariam said that the disease has already progressed to affecting Aisha’s breathing and swallowing muscles, making her incapable of eating or breathing normally.

“Right now, my daughter is still breathing with help from the medical team, but she is not yet on a ventilator," she said. "The medical team has said that if Aisha gets onto a ventilator, she won’t be able to take the medicine that could save her life.”