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RSS FeedsBorn in Sandy-flood hospital, kids `stronger than the storm`
(WorldNews Health)

 
 

24 october 2017 05:21:56

 
Born in Sandy-flood hospital, kids `stronger than the storm`
(WorldNews Health)
 


NEW YORK (AP) - Their lives began with one of the most dramatic stories of Superstorm Sandy: the evacuation of 32 newborn babies from a major New York City hospital that got flooded and lost power. Hospital staffers tended to laboring women in the dark and carried mothers and tiny infants - 21 of them in intensive care - down stairways into the thick of the 2012 storm. Doctors and nurses squeezed air pumps by hand to fill some of the most fragile babies` little lungs. In the end, every one was delivered to safety. Five years later, some of those babies are kindergarteners with mementos of the storm in their birthday celebrations, keepsake boxes and even their names. Their parents remember...


 
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