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Twenty-eight babies who had been treated in poor conditions after being born prematurely at Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip were safely transferred to a hospital in Egypt with an incubator.
However, due to the poor evacuation process, everyone was seriously infected, and at least 11 of them were reported to be in critical condition.
Reporter Kyung-mi Lee reports.
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A hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Palestine.
Medical staff are caring for premature babies brought in from Al Shifa Hospital.
The twin daughters’ mother, who was standing by his side, could not leave the incubator.
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“I have twin daughters and I had no idea what condition they were in. “Today was the first time I saw my daughters since they were born.”
These premature babies were sadly lying in regular hospital beds because the incubator at Alsifah Hospital was not operating.
On the 20th local time, 28 premature babies who escaped from Gaza through the Rafah passage along the Egyptian border were transferred to two hospitals: Al-Arish Hospital in the Sinai Peninsula and New Capital Hospital in Cairo.
The treatment environment at Alsifah Hospital was poor, and the health of the premature babies who went through the dangerous evacuation process was poor.
UNICEF, which assisted with this evacuation along with the World Health Organization and WHO, said that the condition of the premature babies was rapidly deteriorating and that this evacuation was conducted under extremely dangerous conditions.
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“Of these, 11 or 12 are in critical condition and the rest are all in serious condition. The baby is either premature or underweight. Some also have serious infections or are hypothermic.″
Most of the evacuated babies are fighting for their lives in incubators without their parents or family members.
The WHO told CNN that very few of the premature babies were accompanied by family members and that the limited information the Gaza government had made it impossible to locate their close family members.
The Israeli military believed that Hamas’s operational headquarters was located at Al Shifa Hospital and engaged in combat with Hamas, resulting in the deaths of about 40 people, including 3 premature babies.
This is Kyung-mi Lee from MBC News.
Video editing: Park Cheon-gyu
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2023-11-21 11:12:40
