Dnipro, Ukraine: medical personnel move babies from the neonatal ward to anti-aircraft bunkers while Russian attacks continue outside
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousIn Dnipro, Ukraine, Russian missiles have already hit various strategic targets and the staff of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Children's Clinical Hospital, the city's children's hospital has secured premature babies. improvising a neonatal intensive care unit in the basement of the building which serve as a bomb shelter. Between fear and insecurity, the nurses hug and cradle newborns, even managing to smile, as they are filmed in a video showing all the little ones, the emergency measures taken to keep them safe.
Newborn infants from the neonatal intensive care unit at a children’s hospital in Dnipro, in eastern Ukraine, were moved into a makeshift bomb shelter on a lower level of the building on Thursday. https://t.co/l8RAcFMTud pic.twitter.com/kWud9ktt2P
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Cartons, envelopes and even a pet carrier are the backdrop for many babies wrapped in blankets and guarded by nurses and doctors, while Russian soldiers invade the country. Some sleep peacefully in the arms of the healthcare staff, while others are connected to oxygen cylinders recovered from the hospital to help the little ones breathe. An emergency underground shelter that at the moment is undoubtedly the safest choice in the ongoing destruction in Ukraine and where they try to protect the most defenseless, newborn babies who cannot remotely imagine what is happening outside this dungeon.
This is neonatal intensive care in a bomb shelter. Can you imagine it? This is our reality "
said Dr. Surkov that he has taken back his little patients and all the colleagues he has never abandoned them.
Dnipro, Ukraine's eastern city, is part of Russia's military targets and was attacked on Thursday morning like other hotspots in the country. This, moreover, is one of the many images of the war, an image that, however, gives us hope.
Source: New York Times
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