Rohingya dying from lack of health care in Myanmar

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In this Jan. 17, 2014 photo, Raduan, left, helps her ailing mother Noor Jahan to steady her weak body at their living room in The' Chaung village in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. As part of one of the community's richest families, Jahan, who later died, should have been in a hospital getting tests and medicine for her failing liver and kidneys, but it wasn't available to her. She was an ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar's northwestern state of Rakhine, forced to live segregated behind security checkpoints in a dirt-floor bamboo hut about a quarter mile from the sea. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)THE' CHAUNG, Myanmar (AP) — Noor Jahan rocked slowly on the floor, trying to steady her weak body. Her chest heaved and her eyes closed with each raspy breath. She could no longer eat or speak, throwing up even spoonfuls of tea.

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