More than 100 babies born each day in Ukraine need the sort of neonatal intensive care that’s hard to access in a war zone.
Anna is comforted by her partner Yuri as he times her contractions in the basement shelter of Maternity Hospital Number 5 in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. As artillery shells fall, pregnant women are delivering prematurely, being shuttled in and out of bomb shelters or having babies in basements without even a midwife to help.
At the start of the war, an estimated 260,000 women in Ukraine were pregnant, according to the United Nations Population Fund. About 1,000 are giving birth each day, and more than 100 of those babies will need some sort of neonatal intensive care, Chen said.women giving birth in cold, decrepit basements or in subway stations used as bomb shelters. As bombs rain down above, the women have no electricity, running water or access to life-saving medical equipment.
“Primarily, we are in need of transportable incubators for these babies who are in intensive care,” a nurse and head of the Perinatal Center in Kharkiv, Ukraine, told Fox Business News. “They are critically dependent on this equipment.”
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