GAZA: A premature baby, rescued by Gaza doctors from her dead mother's womb last week, has died due to complications and power cuts affecting the intensive care unit where she was treated.
The six-day-old baby was born by emergency Caesarean section Friday after doctors at Deir al-Balah hospital in central Gaza managed to save her from the womb of her mother, who died when an Israeli tank shell hit her home.
The mother, 23-year-old Shayma al-Sheikh Qanan, had been eight months pregnant, and the baby was named after her.
But the baby was deprived of oxygen between her mother's death and doctors being able to operate, which meant she had to be connected up to a respirator at the maternity ward in Khan Yunis hospital in southern Gaza.
"The baby suffered an oxygen deficiency in the womb after her mother's heart stopped," Dr Abdel Karem al-Bawab, head of the maternity ward at Nasser hospital, told AFP Thursday.
"This deficiency caused the baby to asphyxiate unexpectedly, rendering her brain dead," he said of the tragedy, which occurred Wednesday.
"The ongoing electricity shortages played a role because her oxygen tubes did not work properly and we had to resuscitate her more than once manually."
Doctors told AFP earlier this week that her vital signs were stable but said she would have to be on the respirator for "at least three more weeks."
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@WB:
Yes blame everything on others. Typical Indian mentality.
Dear Baby -- You born to suffer... I pray to God that you reborn as my daughter so that i can give you all the happiness & love that you deserve!!!!
The killers of this baby: Hamas and rocket hurtling Palestinians.
Hamas is responsible for 1000 deaths in Gaza. Hamas started the war.
Hamas should be tried for war crimes.
SHAMEFUL INDEED: the israeli and iranian aggression (in later's case genocide in Syria) in middle east and the silence with which the world is watching
Save Gaza, from Hamas.
IDF: ''we are defending ourselves".. Yes, they are defending their borders of these unborn babies, who are going to storm their front?? This is worse than Holocaust..Humanity has died :( :(
What can you say, baby killer army in diapers at its best. Here comes waves of internet indians to defend IDF till the last man and provide justifications.