Under bombardment, Gaza medics fight to save patients with no power, water or food
"Inside a darkened operating theatre in Gaza’s largest hospital complex, staff swaddled dozens of tiny premature babies seven or eight to a bed, in a desperate effort to keep the infants warm – and alive.
With no oxygen supplies or power for incubators, nurses attempted to provide what care they could for 39 babies who were transferred from the neonatal unit in another part of the sprawling complex after a strike on Dar al-Shifa’s intensive care unit.
Just getting them to the theatre was a potentially deadly mission after staff reported attacks on anyone moving inside the hospital compound.
Thirty-nine infants managed to survive the transfer, but their conditions worsened over the weekend. “We lost the life of one baby today. Yesterday we lost two and I am afraid that all of the babies will lose their lives,” said Abu Sada."
morE in the report by RUTH MICHAELSON
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