ONE-year-old Ihsan was almost motionless, his head stuck to the chest of his mother, Sapiah. His mother stroked his forehead carefully. Ihsans head weighed no less than 5 kilograms. Hydrocephalus was the reason for his condition. He got it from the womb, said the 30-year-old woman, drawing back the head cover of her baby boy.

The housewife from Masjid Raya, Samalanga, Bireun had tried various ways to relieve the pain plaguing her child. However, a