Caesarian section in Gaza: Doctors remove baby from dying mother's womb

Caesarean section in the Gaza Strip
Doctors removed the baby from the dying mother's womb

April 23, 2024, 8:55 pm

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A rescue operation in Gaza, how tragic: Ten minutes before the mother died, doctors at the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah brought her baby into the world. Doctors talk about a “miracle”.

Doctors in the Gaza Strip delivered a baby by cesarean section from a dying mother's womb over the weekend. Sahib Al Shams, director of the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah, said it was a miracle he was alive despite his breathing difficulties. Hospital officials said the newborn's condition is stable.

Al-Shams said the mother, Sabreen Al-Saghani, died ten minutes after the operation. She was seven months pregnant when she arrived at the hospital with head and stomach injuries. Doctors noticed the pregnancy during the examination and decided to perform an immediate caesarean despite the absence of anesthesia.

The newborn was taken to the children's clinic at an Emirati hospital set up in Rafah in December. There, the baby was placed in an incubator and given oxygen and antibiotics, a hospital representative said. Sabreen al-Saghani was wounded in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip, and the child's father and sister were also killed.

According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, 34,100 people were killed

An unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7 sparked a war in the Palestinian territories between Israel and the militant Islamist group Hamas. Fighters from Hamas and other militant Palestinian groups, classified as a terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States, have entered Israeli cities and committed atrocities against civilians. According to Israeli reports, they killed about 1,170 people and took 250 hostages to the Gaza Strip.

Since then, Israel has launched a massive military operation in the Gaza Strip. According to the Hamas-controlled health ministry, which cannot be independently verified, more than 34,100 people have been killed so far.