Ronan Kelly
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Disease claims young victims in Ivory Coast crisis
Associated Press | Posted: Friday, April 22, 2011 11:27 am |
Emanuel Ekra
..Kneeling family members bent in prayer over two little bodies wrapped in sheets on the grass in the hospital grounds. Then two women among them released heart-rending wails.
The latest victims of Ivory Coast's bloody four-month political standoff are dying of easily treated malaria. Most are children.
"We had five patients die (of malaria) within an hour of reaching the hospital yesterday," said Caroline Seguin, a nurse from Doctors Without Borders who is running the sole functioning hospital in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's biggest city of some 5 million people.
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http://www.maysville-online.com/news/world/africa/article_c8d19a4b-7cdf-5a42-8d66-77750a3e14fe.html
Associated Press | Posted: Friday, April 22, 2011 11:27 am |
Emanuel Ekra
..Kneeling family members bent in prayer over two little bodies wrapped in sheets on the grass in the hospital grounds. Then two women among them released heart-rending wails.
The latest victims of Ivory Coast's bloody four-month political standoff are dying of easily treated malaria. Most are children.
"We had five patients die (of malaria) within an hour of reaching the hospital yesterday," said Caroline Seguin, a nurse from Doctors Without Borders who is running the sole functioning hospital in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's biggest city of some 5 million people.
...
http://www.maysville-online.com/news/world/africa/article_c8d19a4b-7cdf-5a42-8d66-77750a3e14fe.html