Agent Orange’s forgotten child victims suffer from USAid cut

The cries of distraught and abandoned children echo around the corridors of the Agent Orange rehabilitation centre at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

Ranging from toddlers to teenagers, they are claimed to be the latest generation to suffer the effects of the Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago on Wednesday with the fall of what was then called Saigon.

Born with rare malformations and disabilities, the 32 patients in the care of the Tu Du Hospital have health conditions linked to exposure to the notorious herbicide that was used by the US military to defoliate Vietnam’s jungles and reveal enemy troops during the conflict.

Agent Orange contained dioxin, which is linked to birth defects and cancer

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“Gen Z Agent Orange victims are [often] forgotten by the international community,” Nguyen Van Cu, the vice-director of

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