Her butterfly child


Open your mouth wide: Kaoirul feeding Aqif as Umi Umeera looks on.

 

PETALING JAYA: “Who will take care of Aqif when my husband and I are not around anymore?” asked Umi Umeera Mazlan, 30, a housewife whose four-year-old son Muhammad Aqif has a rare genetic skin disorder known as epidermolysis bullosa (EB).

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