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7-month-old weighs 3.4kg due to malnutrition!!!
« on: July 26, 2011, 07:27:10 PM »
DADAAB, Kenya—Mihag Gedi Farah is 7 months old, and weighs as little as a newborn with the weathered skin of an old man.
His mother managed to get him to a field hospital in a Kenyan refugee camp after a weeklong odyssey, but the baby's anguished eyes, hollow cheeks and fragile limbs show just how severe Somalia's famine is becoming.
Officials have warned that 800,000 children could die across the Horn of Africa, and aid workers are rushing to bring help to dangerous and previously unreached regions of drought-ravaged Somalia.
Mihag's sunken face brings new urgency to their efforts and raises concerns about how many children like him remain in Somalia, far from the feeding tubes and doctors at this Kenyan refugee camp

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Re: 7-month-old weighs 3.4kg due to malnutrition!!!
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2011, 10:24:38 PM »
Allah  will make this disaster   over soon . plz pray for somali and whole africa ... thnz for posting
Dr. Abdirizak H Mohamed
PharmD KU -PAKISTAN , Msc- KEMU NAIROBI


 

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