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Benjamin Roberts-Haslam & Milo Boyd

Fragile baby forced to spend weeks in hospital after contracting common cold

A baby boy is so fragile that a common cold landed him in hospital for two weeks.

Soon after Tommy Armitage was born in December 2019 at Oldham Hospital, he had to undergo open-heart surgery to insert a stent.

The tiny mental mesh works to keep an artery from closing or narrowing in the baby's heart, Liverpool Echo reported.

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