Baby Beside the River (12 images)

This story is about a Daw Lae Lae a Burmese mother who refused to give up trying to find help for her baby daughter Than Zin Moe who required a complicated operation. The baby suffered from a medical condition called meningocele. Lae Lae's predicament is not uncommon in Burma. In 2000 the World Health Organization ranked the country as having one of the worst health care systems second only to Sierra Leone. What is unique is Lae Lae's perseverance to find a resolution to her baby's ailment in...
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This story is about a Daw Lae Lae a Burmese mother who refused to give up trying to find help for her baby daughter Than Zin Moe who required a complicated operation. The baby suffered from a medical condition called meningocele. Lae Lae's predicament is not uncommon in Burma. In 2000 the World Health Organization ranked the country as having one of the worst health care systems second only to Sierra Leone. What is unique is Lae Lae's perseverance to find a resolution to her baby's ailment in spite of her abject poverty.
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