After heart surgery in the U.S. Afghan baby dies in a muddy refugee camp

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-afghan17.html

Afghan boy dies at home after heart surgery in U.S.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan toddler taken to the United States for surgery to fix a life-threatening heart ailment died Friday, two days after returning home to a muddy refugee camp from the trip arranged with the help of U.S. soldiers.

Army medical officers said 16-month-old Qudratullah Wardak's repaired heart had likely given out as his father tried to comfort him in the family's drafty tent near an American base outside the Afghan capital. The cause of death could not be determined.

The boy had been treated at a children's hospital in Indianapolis after Indiana National Guard soldiers and the Rotary Club learned of his condition and the family's inability to find care in Afghanistan, which has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world.

Seemed well earlier

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[xultar]

1. Why would they send that baby back to those conditions!!!!????!!!!

:grr:

[NNN0LHI]

3. Because he had served his purpose. He was brought here for propaganda

After the US finished using him for feel good propaganda he was no longer of any use. He was just a stage prop for America. How many other Afghan children are dying under these conditions in Afghanistan every day do you think? I am afraid more than you want to know about.

Don

[Demit]

2. I guess he might've died anyway, no matter where he was

The article says COD hadn't been determined. There's really not enough information there to know.

[NNN0LHI]

4. For some reason that doesn't make me feel any better about this n/t

[riverwalker]

5. horrible

I wonder if Laura visited any hospitals on her 5 hour photo-op visit to Afghanistan? That witch COULD be doing so much to help these people, if she cared at all, which we know she doesn't.

"Afghanistan, which has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world."