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    New hope for terminally ill baby

    Baby Andrei has confounded doctors just by being alive: The tiny boy with twig-thin limbs was given just days to live when he was born with almost no intestines — eight months ago. But one doctor is fighting a battle to save the lives of hundreds of sick children, and giving hope to baby Andrei and others like him. Dr. Catalin Cirstoveanu's work is being highlighted as a beacon of light in the struggling and corrupt infrastructure of the Romanian health care system.

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    1. A newborn babies foot is examined at the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children
    2. Baby Andrei, eight months old, son of Roma underage parents, cries after being put back in an incubator at the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children
    3. Baby Andrei, eight-month-old, son of Roma underage parents clenches his fist from the arms of a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children
    4. Doctor Catalin Cirstoveanu, left, with backpack, watches as a newborn baby is transported to an ambulance on his way to Italy for heart surgery from the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie childre
    5. A temporary passport is seen on an incubator before the newborn baby inside was flown to Italy for heart surgery from the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children
    6. A newborn baby appears to smile after having a meal at the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children
    7. A newborn baby holds his mother
    8. Baby Andrei, eight-month-old, son of Roma underage parents, cries after being put back in an incubator at the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children
    9. Newborn babies are fed at the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children
    10. A toy is seen at the grave of a baby that died 8 years ago on the same day it was born, on March 17, 2012, in Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Catalin Cirstoveanu is fighting an exhausting and largely solitary

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