Everyone was surprised at how many young children were waiting to be evaluated. Many of them, like this little girl, have hydrocephalus and will need shunts to drain off the fluid around their brains. A nurse says many of the mothers who come here been abandoned by the father of their child because they delivered a baby with an abnormality. Physicians spent much of the day evaluating case by case. For some, the outcome of their deliberations will mean the difference between life and death.
