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A two-week old infant with severe medical issues in the al-Rukban IDP camp on the Syrian-Jordanian border is at risk of death barring an urgent intervention, residents of the camp told The New Arab on Thursday. Yaqeen al-Akeel, the two-week old girl, is currently on oxygen after she was born with a congenital malformation that prevents her from breathing properly on her own. The child requires a specialist for treatment – something which far outstrips the medical capacity of the impoverished displacement camp. The child’s parents have appealed for the daughter to be medically evacuated to a ho…