Indian Girl With Rare Condition Dies Suddenly
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published June 20, 2017 | 05:05 PM
AGARTALA, India, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Jun, 2017 ) - An Indian girl who made international headlines when a rare condition caused her head to swell to more than twice the normal size has died, days before she was to undergo corrective surgery.
Roona Begum's family said she died Sunday at her home in a village in India's remote northeast after complaining of breathlessness. "She was otherwise fit and fine.
But on Sunday she started having breathing problems and I rang up my husband asking him to come back home," said Fatima Begum.
"He rushed home and gave her water but before we could take her to the hospital she died," she told AFP. The five-year-old was born with hydrocephalus, a potentially fatal condition that causes cerebrospinal fluid to build up on the brain. Publication of pictures taken by an AFP photographer in the remote state of Tripura prompted a New Delhi hospital to treat her for free in 2013.
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