NEW YORK (Wed, Oct 31)
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| Sandy's aftermath: NYU Langone Medical Center evacuated due to power outage |
Shattered medical
staff worked through the night to evacuate NYU's Langone Medical Center after
substantial swamping from Superstorm Sandy caused the hospital to lose not only
normal supply of electricity, but backup power generator was also failed for
some unknown reasons.
A stream of
ambulances was seen towards downtown hospitals to aid in evacuation of Tisch
Hospital NYU Langone Medical Center. The hospital lost power needed to care for
215 patients when their backup generators fail. They are still investigating
the cause of failure. Patients were carried down 18 flights of stairs by nurses
and other paramedical staff of the hospital.
Ambulances
came from around the city to help transport the patients, which were hurried to
other hospitals including Mount Sinai and the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer.
Doctors
and nurses first moved the sickest and youngest patients. Some were on respirators
operating on battery power.
Among
more than 200 patients evacuated there were 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit. Because
the hospital's respirators for infants do not have backup batteries, each of
the infants required extra attention from nurses at the hospital.
At least four babies had to be carried to a
waiting ambulance down nine flights of stairs while a nurse
"breathed" for the infant by manually squeezing a bag to drive oxygen
into the lungs.
Watch video of evacuation below:
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