Heartbreaking moment aid workers pray over three-month-old Zika baby after he was abandoned in a hospital in hurricane-ravaged Haiti

THIS is the heartbreaking moment aid workers pray for a baby suffering from microcephaly who was found abandoned in the devastation of Haiti.

The condition means three-month-old Micah, whose mother may have been infected by the Zika virus, was born with an abnormally small head.

Photographs taken at the airport in Jeremie, Haiti, show the workers from Danitas Children surrounding the youngster.

Together they pray for the boy – who was found abandoned by his parents in the devastation of Hurricane Matthew.

The storm passed through the Caribbean nation earlier this month – causing at least 1,500 deaths and destroying 80 percent of the suburb of Jeremie.

Meanwhile, hopes have dimmed for Haitians combing the countryside for missing relatives in the Caribbean nation’s hardest-hit zone, the remote and long-ignored southwestern tip.

The central government says the official toll stands at 546 dead and 128 missing, but many believe the figures could be higher and some rugged areas still have not been fully assessed.

While relief can often be slow and chaotic in disasters all around the world, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest and least developed country is perennially beset by natural catastrophes and particularly ill-equipped to handle them.

In crucial first days, assistance is often too little and too late, stalled by impassable roads, collapsed bridges and a lack of resources and infrastructure.

Communications were wiped out by Matthew in large parts of the southwest, with no emergency backup.

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