Baby Matilda’s story touched (and united) the country around the case of a girl who was born with a rare condition: spinal muscular atrophy type 1, the most serious.
It was in June 2019 that TVI reported the case on the program “Você na TV”, where the girl’s parents, Carla and Miguel, told the Portuguese about the drama they had gone through.
The country responded with a giant wave of solidarity, and in a few days, the parents of little Matilda raised the two and a half million euros needed to buy an innovative drug to save the baby’s life. Meanwhile, in an unprecedented “pivot” in August, baby Matilda gained access to a drug paid for by the Portuguese government through the National Health System.
After all the donation controversy, baby Matilda’s case no longer received the media attention it once did. This Wednesday, October 12, little Mathilde visited Manuel Luis Gusha in the company of her mother, Carla Martins, who was touched by memories of the hard times when she spent most of her time with the baby and not with other children, as she could. see here.
The moment was shared on social networks, where many of the presenter’s subscribers were touched by the fact that they saw little Matilda again: “Matilda, you are so beautiful. I wish that the future will give you this joy of life. I’m touched because I haven’t seen you for a long time and suddenly, without waiting, I see your face on TV, can be read.
