Babies bring hope amid devastation
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People in Yiliang County, Yunnan Province, make free phone calls to their relatives after an earthquake hit the area on Friday. |
According to Yunnan Information Daily, five of the babies born in the hospital after the earthquake have already left because their families wanted them out of the tents.
Ye Zifa, president of the hospital, said that the earthquake cracked the walls of the inpatient building, so the hospital put 120 inpatients, whose condition was less critical, into tents, including 36 who were slightly injured in the earthquake.
However, 70 people who were severely injured in the quake remain in the wards, he said.
In order to reduce the chances of infection, medical workers have the hospital disinfected three times a day, said Zhu Xinghong, a nurse in the department of gynecology and obstetrics. "What's more, there is an ultraviolet lamp in every tent," she said.
Zhang Chaojing gave birth to a girl in a makeshift delivery room in the hospital's tent on the morning of Saturday.
"The house was shaking greatly when the earthquake came. We all ran to the hill for shelter. I felt pain and went to the hospital that night," she told Beijing Times.
"It's very fortunate that my daughter was born on this day safe and sound. I am not asking for anything more than her health," she said.
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