28 premature Gaza babies evacuated to Egypt
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00:00 31 premature babies were transported from the Shifa Hospital in the north of the Gaza
00:04 Strip.
00:05 Three of them remained in the south of the Gaza Strip at intensive care units.
00:10 And 28 were transported to Egypt.
00:14 Of those 28, health officials say they are all ill.
00:19 They all have serious infections.
00:21 They are premature.
00:22 They are extremely vulnerable.
00:24 Some of them have low body temperatures.
00:27 16 of those are being treated in Al-Harij, a city like 50 kilometers from the border
00:32 with Gaza in Egypt's Sinai.
00:34 12 of them were flown to Cairo to be treated in a hospital in the Cairo suburbs.
00:41 And the WHO said that these 12 were in a critical condition.
00:46 So we hope now that they arrived in a hospital with the proper facilities here in Cairo that
00:52 we'll be able to save them.
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