Malnourished Fatima Ibrahim Hadi, 12, who weighs just 10 kg lies on a bed at a clinic in Aslam of the northwestern province of Hajjah, Yemen February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Eissa Alragehi
HAJJAH, Yemen (Reuters) - Displaced by war, starving and living under a tree, 12-year-old Fatima Qoba weighed just 10kg when she was carried into a Yemeni malnutrition clinic.
"All the fat reserves in her body have been used up, she is left only with bones," Makiah al-Aslami, a doctor and head of the clinic in northwest Yemen. "She has the most extreme form of malnutrition."
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