10-year-old Chilean boy struggles to save his life because it is the only case in Chile with PolG mutation

At the age of 10, Pedrito faces one of the hardest battles a child can live. He has been diagnosed with a mutation in the PolG gene, an extremely rare and devastating mitochondrial disease, which progressively affects the nervous system. It is the only case known in Chile and, until now, there is no definitive cure or treatment available in the country. From the age of two, his health began to deteriorate without apparent cause: neurological sei…