Abdullah Kodhum, a 4-day-old boy affected by a severe case of hydrocephalus and spina bifida, is lying inside a room of the children's ward at Fallujah General Hospital, Iraq. More then 15 per cent of children at the hospital are now being born with some sort of congenital defect. The average elsewhere in the world is believed to be between 2 and 4 per cent.
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