A little baby boy coughs like he is about to lose his breath and die. His mother grows more desperate and weary as she struggles to comfort the coughing boy. The mother and son are lying next to each other on a bed in one of the wards at the Uganda Heart Institute at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala.
He has pneumonia," says his mother, Lydia Nakamwe. The boy who is struggling for his life is just five months old.
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