Three-Month-Old Baby Ali Dies in Iraq

Three-month old Iraqi boy Ali Mohammed cries during his diarrhea treatment in the General Teaching Hospital for Children in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), in this June 4, 2004 file photo with a small copy of the Quran on his pillow. Ali, who prompted an outpouring of sympathy around the world after he was photographed lying emaciated in the undersupplied Iraqi hospital has died, doctors said Saturday June 19, 2004. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A 3-month-old Iraqi baby who prompted an outpouring of sympathy around the world after he was photographed lying emaciated in an undersupplied Iraqi hospital has died, doctors said Saturday.


Ali Mohammed Jabbar — affectionately known as Baby Ali — died of septicemia, a bacterial blood infection easily treated if more advanced medical care had been available, said Dr. Haidar Hadi of Baghdad's General Teaching Hospital for Children.


"The chance of survival would have been much, much higher if he were in a European hospital," Hadi said. "He most probably would have survived."


Baby Ali's suffering illustrated the plight of Iraq (news - web sites)'s children, who are still lacking proper medical care after more than a year of U.S. military occupation.

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