Courtesy of Sam Jaffe
Angela Howard was concerned when her infant daughter stopped crying, despite repeated jabs with an IV needle. The child was dehydrated after three days of severe diarrhea and vomiting. A surgeon at the Philadelphia area hospital inserted an IV line into the child for fluid replenishment. Eight hours later, she was fully hydrated and almost back to normal.
Five thousand miles away in Janta Jeevan, India, 5-year-old Pooja also had sudden, severe diarrhea. Her grandfather spent the entire day filling out forms at the hospital, and the nurses weren't able to examine the child until the next day. He returned and handed his granddaughter to a doctor, who immediately recognized the severity of her dehydration. As the doctor inserted an IV into the girl's arm, her eyes rolled back in her head. She was dead.
While the two children on opposite ends of the world had ...
