- The photo was taken in the city of Hamouria, Syria, making people suddenly realize that: It turns out, children are still the ones who are disadvantaged and suffer the most terrible pain of war.
Recently, a picture of a Syrian baby with a skinny body due to malnutrition was widely shared on social networking sites and made everyone suddenly realize: Turns out the war is still somewhere in the world. This planet and its children are still the most disadvantaged.
The character in the photo, a baby of unknown age, is being cared for by a nurse in a small hospital in the city of Hamouria, Ghouta region, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Doctors said she weighed only 1.9kg; Even lighter than the normal weight of newborn babies.
In war zones, most families have to live in poverty, with insufficient medical care equipment and facilities as well as food scarcity. These things have caused many children to become malnourished. As the war situation in Syria escalates, the child death rate also increases significantly. Trapped in cities where many armed forces are fighting, the lives of people, and especially children, are extremely difficult.
Currently, the information about the malnourished boy in the photo above is unknown. However, I am just one of thousands of children who have to fall into the same situation. At this hospital, there are also many other children being cared for and treated for malnutrition.
The conflict in Syria has been going on for more than 7 years, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead, more than half of the Syrian population homeless and creating the world’s worst refugee crisis.