The Dessie Hospital serves seven million people and simply cannot cope. Every year, 28,000 Ethiopian babies don’t live more than 24 hours. Across the globe, that number is one million.

Baby Yusra, watched over by her mother at a hospital in Dessie, Ethiopia, got a life-threatening infection within days of her premature birth. The first antibiotics that doctors tried were no help.

Dessie I. Casebeer, 92, of Goshen, passed away on Wednesday, ... Dessie retired after 27 years as a cook at the former Valley Manor Nursing Home at New Philadelphia and Union Hospital at Dover.