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Gaza power cuts: When fuel runs out, 'babies will die'

Gadzo, Mersiha
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/gaza-power-cuts-fuel-runs-babies-die-170531095446318.html

Publisher:  Aljazeera
Date Written:  01/06/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Gaza's doctors fear inevitable patient deaths if fuel reserves are depleted by end of June.

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At al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, 50 babies lie crowded in 30 beds in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Outside, the yard resembles a factory as massive generators roar and hum, turning fuel into electricity, supplying the babies with oxygen through ventilators.

Due to the electricity shortage in Gaza, the generators are the only lifeline for these newborn babies, but even this may be cut soon as Gaza's fuel reserves are expected to be depleted in a month, placing patients' lives at risk.

"Most of the babies are connected to mechanical ventilation. If the electricity is cut, most of these babies will die within a few seconds; we cannot support them," said Dr Allam Abu Hamida, director of al-Shifa's NICU.

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