Comments on: Worst Place in the World to be a Baby http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/12/24/worst-place-in-the-world-to-be-a-baby/ The largest network of Foreign Policy blogs Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Cassandra Clifford http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/12/24/worst-place-in-the-world-to-be-a-baby/#comment-1624 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:52:03 +0000 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/12/24/worst-place-in-the-world-to-be-a-baby/#comment-1624 Adama Gondor, who runs a clinic in a coastal slum of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, is keeping a diary for the BBC News website about her work. "A severely malnourished child was brought to the clinic on Monday. ...Eight-month-old babies should weigh about 9kg. The baby was eight months old, but she only weighed 4.5kg.... The baby was very thin, with bad skin and looked more like an old man - it's awful to see a baby in such a condition. She also looked very hungry. We immediately referred the baby to the hospital quite far away in the east of Freetown where there is a therapeutic feeding centre..." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7295403.stm Adama Gondor, who runs a clinic in a coastal slum of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is keeping a diary for the BBC News website about her work.

“A severely malnourished child was brought to the clinic on Monday.

…Eight-month-old babies should weigh about 9kg. The baby was eight months old, but she only weighed 4.5kg…. The baby was very thin, with bad skin and looked more like an old man - it’s awful to see a baby in such a condition. She also looked very hungry. We immediately referred the baby to the hospital quite far away in the east of Freetown where there is a therapeutic feeding centre…” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7295403.stm

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