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Originally published on December 23, 2020 11:42 am Losing my child while I am watching is breaking my heart, says Mohammed Yousuf as he tries to calm his crying son. I feel so worried for my son. I won t rest until my son is completely healed.
Yousuf lives in Yemen. His 1-year-old son, Abdullah, has been at a health facility in Sana a, the capital city, where doctors are feeding him reconstituted milk from powder formulated for children with malnutrition to keep him alive.
On Dec. 5, Abdullah weighed 6 pounds on his fifth day of treatment for severe acute malnutrition, says his attending clinician, Dr. Abdelmalek Mohammed. That s less than one-third of the average weight for his age. The doctor s diagnosis of severe acute malnutrition is a medical classification reserved for the worst cases. Yousuf and his wife, Fadiah, traveled 15 hours by bus through dozens of military checkpoints to bring their child to the facility in Sana a. He spoke
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A nurse checks a child who is receiving treatment for malnutrition this month at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images Losing my child while I am watching is breaking my heart, Mohammed Yousuf says as he tries to calm his crying son. I feel so worried for my son. I won t rest until my son is completely healed.
Yousuf lives in Yemen. His 1-year-old son, Abdullah, has been at a health facility in Sanaa, the capital, where doctors are feeding him reconstituted milk from powder formulated for children with malnutrition to keep him alive.