ACCRA: The three-story Child Health Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana’s capital, Accra, is a place with hushed corridors, labored breathing, and parents clutching on to hope.
But on Friday, the gloom gave way to shrieks of joy as children with drips taped to their arms sat upright for the first time in days.
Others, too weak to stand, managed faint but determined smiles. Nurses paused mid-rounds, phones raised in the cancer ward. Even exhausted mothers lit up.
The reason was nearly 2.03-meter tall, dressed in the iconic blue-and-red Superman suit and cape.
In real life, Leonardo Muylaert is a lawyer specializing in civil rights who needs reading glasses to work.
