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A Mission To Evacuate Premature Twin Babies From Ukraine

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

More than two million people have fled Ukraine since Russia attacked two weeks ago - at least half of them children. It's a dangerous journey for anyone, let alone premature babies who were already fighting for their lives.

This is the harrowing story of some of the youngest evacuees - babies less than two weeks old who were born prematurely. Each day, they've been growing stronger as Kyiv grows weaker.

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0:00.0

Brian Stern runs a Florida-based nonprofit called Project Dynamo.

0:04.5

Their job is to rescue or exfiltrate people from conflict.

0:08.5

I can hear you, can you hear me?

0:10.2

This past summer he was in Afghanistan helping people leave when US troops were pulling out.

0:14.8

And this week he was making his way out of Kiev Ukraine with some particularly precious cargo.

0:20.8

We hit two different baby osmos and Kiev,

0:23.6

both of them were kind of in the middle of the city.

0:26.0

It sounded like they were showing it started while we were there.

0:29.9

Stern has been traveling with three premature babies.

0:33.3

If dust gets in the room, they're in trouble.

0:36.3

If the power goes out in the room, they're in trouble.

0:38.6

If there's a whole bunch of shout-out troops and stuff,

0:41.9

and the doctors get spread thin, they're going to be in trouble.

0:44.8

So bottom line is, is getting out of Kiev.

0:47.1

A video he shared with NPR shows medical staff wheeling out one baby in an incubator

0:52.0

and loading the infant into an ambulance.

0:54.0

The book of the ambulance up to her.

1:00.1

Two neonatologist specialists are in the ambulance with the infants.

1:03.6

You picked up baby Lenny and baby Masha first.

1:07.1

Mostly just a better shape.

1:08.9

A third baby, who was also part of the extraction, was weaker, more fragile.

1:12.9

We should have a ventilator and said the idea was to have less stress on her, the better.

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