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Nine-month-old in heartbreaking photo dies of malnutrition

2017-12-16 21:41 GMT+8
 
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1 / 4   The 9-month-old Syrian baby Huseyin Makdah died on Friday – 20 days after he was added into the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) team’s urgent evacuation list. The photo of him lying on a bed and looking into the camera with desperate sights, deeply moved many. He had just received medical help in late November. /CFP Photo

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2 / 4   Makdeh is only one of the babies who have died of malnutrition in the Syrian regime forces sieged district – the Eastern Ghouta region of the capital, Damascus. Residents in the region are struggling with food supplies and medicines. /CFP Photo

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3 / 4   Enes Abu Yasir, a doctor and the manager of a local clinic, told Anadolu Agency that Makdeh had weighed only four kilograms before he died of malnutrition. /CFP Photo

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4 / 4   "He also had a chin deformity and therefore had difficulty drinking milk," Abu Yasir said. /CFP Photo

 
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