Even when the air-raid sirens sound, the babies in Ukraine's Pokrovsk Perinatal Hospital above-ground incubation ward cannot be disconnected from their life-saving machines.
abc.net.au/news/fight-to-save-premature-babies-on-ukraine-front-line/101357022Echoing down the corridors of eastern Ukraine's Pokrovsk Perinatal Hospital are the loud cries of tiny Veronika.
One was hit by a Russian air strike and the other had to close as a result of the fighting — leaving only the maternity hospital in the coalmining town of Pokrovsk still operating.Her 3-year-old son divides the week between the facility and living with his father, a coal miner, at home.The doctor explains why it's now impossible to leave: even when the air-raid sirens sound, the babies in the hospital's above-ground incubation ward cannot be disconnected from their life-saving machines.
Russia and Moscow-backed separatists now occupy just over half the Donetsk region, which is a similar size to Sicily or Massachusetts.Inside the hospital's maternity wards, talk of the war is discouraged. Many essential services in government-held areas of the Donetsk region — heat, electricity, water supplies — have been damaged by Russian bombardment, and living conditions are only expected to worsen as the winter grows near.
"If the hospital was relocated, the patients would still have to remain here," chief physician Ivan Tsyganok, who kept working even when the town was being hit by Russian rocket fire, says.Dr Tsyganok and his colleagues say they have a more hopeful reason to stay.
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