Friday, January 07, 2005

Health risks rise as aid fails to arrive

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=177535&t=1

[Mail&GuardianOnline] January 7, 2005--Between the toilets and kitchens of a refugee camp set up in the grounds and rooms of Mahmud Ladies' College, seven-month-old Fatima is wailing in the arms of her grandmother. Thin and frail, the baby has survived the waves that pounded her beachside home almost two weeks ago only to find herself threatened by another killer: diarrhoea.

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