BAIDOA, SOMALIA. 1993-01-23. AN EMACIATED SOMALIAN CHILD AT THE BAIDOA HOSPITAL. THE HOSPITAL ...

Place Africa: Somalia, Baidoa
Accession Number P01736.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Page, Charles J
Place made Somalia: Baidoa
Date made 23 January 1993
Conflict Period 1990-1999
Somalia, 1992-1995
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Description

BAIDOA, SOMALIA. 1993-01-23. AN EMACIATED SOMALIAN CHILD AT THE BAIDOA HOSPITAL. THE HOSPITAL FUNCTIONED IN DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS, WITHOUT AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF DRUGS. MOST OF THE CHILDREN WERE SEVERELY EMACIATED AND SUFFERING FROM TUBERCULOSIS. FEW OF THESE CHILDREN WOULD SURVIVE FOR MORE THAN A FEW DAYS. (ORIGINAL NEGATIVE HOUSED IN AWM ARCHIVE STORE)