New Zealand immigration authori-ties said Dec. 28, 2007 they have re-fused a visa for the Samoan baby Miracletina with severe deformities to seek expert medical treatment in New Zealand as surgery will not help the tiny girl. Sefulu Nanai holds his de-formed four-month-old daughter Miracletina, in Falelatai village, near the Samoan capital, Apia, in this un-dated photo.

紐西蘭移民局去年12月28日表示，拒發入境簽證給薩摩亞女嬰米拉克麗蒂娜，因她嚴重畸形，手術無法改善這個小女孩的容顏。圖中這個四個月大畸形女嬰的父親納奈抱著女兒米拉克麗蒂娜，在薩摩亞首都阿皮亞附近的法勒拉泰村留影，拍攝日期不詳。

The baby was born with misshapen eyes that were pushed to the side of her face, while her nose and mouth were malformed, preventing her from suckling. Doctors told her par-ents that she should not be fed and would die within hours, Tanupo Aukuso, editor of the Samoan Post newspaper, said. But her family re-fused to let her die and secretly fed her, and supporters raised more than 78,000 US dollars to get the baby to New Zealand for a full medical as-sessment.

女嬰一出生就兩眼畸形，被推擠到臉側，她口鼻也扭曲變形，使她無法吸奶。據「薩摩亞郵報」總編輯阿庫索說，醫師告訴她父母，根本不要餵她任何食物，讓她在數小時內自然死亡，但她的家人拒絕讓她坐以待斃，偷偷餵她奶，支持者也籌募了78,000美元以上，要送這個貝比到紐西蘭去接受完整的醫療評估。

New Zealand immigration official Mary Anne Thompson, said in a statement published in Samoa that "treatment could not cure (Miracleti-na's) condition and further assessment and surgery had no part to play".

紐西蘭移民官員瑪莉．安妮．湯普森在薩摩亞發表聲明說，「任何醫療措施都無法治癒米拉克麗蒂娜的病情，即使進行進一步評估和手術也無濟於事。」