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A two-month-old baby died on Friday at the besieged Rukban camp in the Syrian desert, on the border with Jordan and Iraq, as a result of a lack of medical care. The camp has been besieged by Syrian regime forces since 2018, with both Syrian and Jordanian authorities refusing to allow the supply of aid. It is currently inhabited by 10,000 displaced civilians. Medical supplies in the camp have run out, and the only medical staff in the camp are nurses and trainees, who are not qualified to make diagnoses. The baby died as a result of a high fever, with medical staff unable to bring it down, Mahe…

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