https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/11/37-babies-at-risk-of-dying-in-gaza-hospital-israel-says-to-aid-evacuation
Neonatal intensive care unit stops working at under-siege facility with power outages and no fuel.
But it's okay the IDF is here to move the babies...
...alongside the life-saving equipment while they have pikachu as a portable electric.
Yes take them from their families the same way they took the Yemenian Jew babies when the arrived to Isreal. 1000 babies missing and many other giving to Eroupan Jew.
Way better than what I was thinking. Imagine trying to defend this. I try to understand all sides. I can’t devil’s advocate the death of premature babies.
Man, can only imagine how bad the doctors must feel knowing they could save those babies' lives but can't because of a bullshit war. Can't even imagine what the parents are going through though
Depraved.
And also, I think, a warning about the fragility of systems we depend on. IANAD - is there no other way to save them, or are we just not prepared for this?
Basically a very sensitive incubator that regulates heat and oxygen flow for premature babies that otherwise can not survive in the outside world yet. Requires electricity to run.
Really no other way because it requires precision and I believe also has important health monitors builtin.
They died due to low temperatures and a lack of oxygen. We are now using primitive methods to keep them alive,” the director said.
::: spoiler spoiler My assumption is that they're using blankets, maybe fuel based heaters, and pressurized oxygen at best or a hand pump ventilator at worst. :::
“We have electricity until the morning. Once electricity is out, these neonates will die just like the others,” Abu Salmiya warned.
I've done a couple NICU shifts, it's so hard to imagine those babies dying not cause someone made a mistake or they just couldn't make it, but cause we ran out of power... ugh it's a pit in my stomach