COMM: Tipping the scales at a reported 21
kilos, eight month old Santiago Mendoza's size has shocked the word.
COMM: Supersize Santiago weighs the same as
an average six-year old child, due to his insatiable appetite.
FATHER: All that's given to him, he eats.
MOTHER: Yes, he eats it all.
COMM: His worried mother, Eunice Fandiño
approached charity, Gorditos del Corazón, in desperate attempt to save Santiago's life.
MOTHER: He suffers from anxiety so to calm
him down, he wants to eat all thew time and he starts crying. He cries day and night,
so I feed him to calm him down, you see.
COMM: The foundation planned to put Santiago
on a diet before carrying out a series of operations. But first he must be taken to
the capital, Bogota.
SALVADOR: Now on our way to Bogota with Santiago.
We will do beautiful work with this kid, with this baby.
COMM: And with help now at hand his family
hope Santiago's health can be managed.
MOTHER: That it's great work what they are
doing with my baby. I trust God and the Foundation that my bany will keep going and lose weight.
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