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How Nurses At Turkey Hospital Protected Newborns When Earth Shook


Video: How nurses at a Turkish hospital protect babies when the Earth shakes

Nurses are seen holding on to the infant’s incubator

Gaziantep:

A video of two Turkish nurses doing their best to protect babies during a 7.7-magnitude earthquake has surfaced online. The clip was captured by a CCTV camera at a hospital in Gaziantep. The nurses – identified as Devlet Nizam and Gazwl Caliskan – decided to protect the babies in the neonatal intensive care unit instead of leaving the building when the quake was felt.

In the clip, nurses walk into the intensive care unit just as things start to shake. The two were seen clutching the baby’s incubator. Their efforts prevented the incubator from tripping.

The video was shared by Turkish politician Fatma Sahin on Twitter.

Monday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake, with several strong aftershocks across Turkey and Syria, is considered the seventh deadliest natural disaster in the world this century, roughly equal to 31,000 people were killed in an earthquake in neighboring Iran in 2003.

With the death toll so far at 24,617 inside Turkey, it is the deadliest earthquake in the country since 1939. More than 3,500 people have died in Syria, where damage figures have not been updated. since Friday.

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