The youngest child in Vietnam has just died after several days in hospital | Health

In the afternoon of November 9, confirmed to PV, the representative of the Quang Ngai Obstetric Hospital said that on the morning of the same day, the hospital performed the procedures for the discharge of Dinh Van K’Re (11 years old, resident in Son Ba Commune, Son Ja District, Quang Ngai). It was then that the hospital determined that it could not cure this little boy.

Before that, on November 5, little Dinh Van K’Ro suffered a stroke at school and was taken by his teacher to Quang Ngai Obstetrics Hospital. Time of admission, K’Re cardiac arrest, apnea, sepsis, encephalitis, pneumonia.

“After being rescued, the boy’s heart began to beat again. However, despite the best efforts, doctors are still unable to do anything because the patient has too many underlying diseases such as severe pneumonia, congenital heart defects, … and has a poor prognosis. more days of treatment ”, informed the hospital representative.

Dinh Van K’Ro is known as “the little boy”. K’Re is the second son of Mr. Dinh Van An and Ms. Dinh Thi Pia, and resides in Son Ba Commune, Son Ha District, Quang Ngai Province, belonging to the H’Rê ethnic minority.

When Dinh Van K’Re was born, he was as tall as a hand. At the age of 5, K’Re weighs only 3 kg, is 50 cm tall, and can eat several tablespoons of rice throughout the day. At the age of 11, K’Ro is only about 60 cm tall, weighing less than 4 kg, only equivalent to a newborn baby.

According to health experts, K’Ro can contract Seckel syndrome (dwarfs, bird heads), this is a rare syndrome in the world, a recessive genetic disease on chromosomes number 3 and number 18. Currently, this strange disease It has only registered 100 cases in the world.