A HEARTBROKEN dad cradles his 18-month-old daughter, who suffers from a rare disorder which has caused her head to swell to three times its normal size.
Roona Begum, from Agartala, in north eastern India has hydrocephalus - a build up of cerebrospinal fluid inside her skull.
Sufferers typically experience loss of coordination and speech and in long-term cases it can result in mental disability and death.
A treatment is available, in which doctors drain the fluid.
But India has no NHS and Roona's dad, 26-year-old Abdul Rahman, earns less than �2 a day working in a brick factory and can't afford to pay for her to be treated privately.
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