Ship Ahoy! Mercy Ships Floating Hospital Fleet Part The Seas Of Poverty, Famine And Disease In Developing Nations

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: January 30, 2002 | Copyright information

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Omar was born with a cleft lip and palate. At five months old, he weighed less than most newborns -- a mere six pounds -- due to his birth defect, and inability to nurse.

Ce's festering five-pound facial tumor made him an outcast. Due to its size and location, the tumor was a life-threatening deformity as well.

Isabel was born deep in the heart of the Guatemalan jungle with two clubfeet. As her bones developed, her feet grew completely backwards.

Congenital disfigurements, limb loss, blindness, disease, poverty. Hundreds of thousands of tragedies have ...

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