A race to save the starvingThere is no way to dignify the description of death by starvation -- it is neither quick nor painless, Dr. Sanjay Gupta writes from the Somali border.
Saving Ahmed from starvation
Sanjay Gupta,
Chief Medical Correspondent
August 10, 2011 11:58 a.m. EDT
Gupta: 'Starvation not quick, painless'
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
International Rescue Committee hospital is filled with people starving to death
Ahmed Mohammad, 6, is treated for malnutrition at hospital on Somalia-Kenya border
Once fat is all gone, a starving person's body resorts to eating muscle tissue
Patients like Ahmed must be given calories in small amounts because of shrunken stomachs
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