The mother sobbed uncontrollably as she carried her newborn baby to the manager of the muddy and windswept camp in northeastern Syria. The young Syrian woman tried desperately to explain that the child was just 11 days old, and had become suddenly unwell.
“This is no place to bring life into the world,” she said, holding the tiny swaddled infant up to a gas fire. The boy had turned pale, she said, and was struggling to breathe.
She had to wait a while before she was issued a permission slip to take to the medical point, during which time his condition, which appeared to be hypothermia, had worsened dramatically.
The look in her eyes – the only thing visible through her black abaya – suggested…
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