Newborn babies die as Gaza hospital runs out of power

  • last year
Power outages at Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital are forcing medical staff to remove premature babies from life-saving incubators.
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00:24 "We lost the electricity connection. So even the AC on our heater was not working. Then we have to try to cover them as much as we can. And this issue will keep happening again as long as the Israelis are not offering us a proper way of delivering the petrol to Shabah al-Sulaym."
00:46 "As Shifa is an iconic hospital in Gaza. It is always the hospital that continues to
01:06 function across the wars. Yesterday, the Director General of the World Health Organization declared
01:14 that for the last three days, Shifa has not received water and electricity and has stopped
01:18 operating. And that is extremely, extremely dramatic."
01:22 "We are working with four patients in all of these cases. I swear to God, we are devastated,
01:42 and we are in a very difficult situation. We are in a very difficult situation. We are
02:04 in a very difficult situation. We are in a very difficult situation. We are in a very
02:24 difficult situation. We are in a very difficult situation. We are in a very difficult situation."

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