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"It's wonderful and a privilege to live in a country that has the resources to provide the most complex, high-tech, critical care, to kids who need it," says Larry Moss, president and CEO of the Nemours Children's Health system.
"But for many of them, some simple acts would prevent that need in the first place."
That's what happened to Wendell, a 4-year-old boy in New Mexico who suffered a severe cut on his leg while playing around a metal trash can in 1994.
He had to have his leg amputated because of necrotizing fasciitis, and needed to undergo skin grafts on 85% of his body.
Moss tells the Denver Post that he "comes out of practicing as a doctor caring for the less than 1% of children experiencing significant illness and injury," but "it's distressing to see that with a fraction of the resources, we could have such a wonderful impact on all the children."
Wendell lived in a housing project in a difficult neighborhood, one without adequate safe play spaces for children.
"He had to have his leg surgically amputated because of rapidly spreading necrotizing fasciitis, and had to undergo skin grafts on 85% of the skin surface of his body," Moss says.
"Had Wendell had easy access
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