Babies born in quake zone

Source: CCTV.com | 05-14-2008 13:50

A special effort is being made to ensure newborns in the hardest hit areas to receive proper care. In Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan province, tents have been set up to look after their tender lives.

Newly born babies are moved to open space to avoid  danger in a hospital after an earthquake occurred  in Nanchong, a city of southwest China's Sichuan  Province on May 12, 2008. A major earthquake measuring  7.8 Richter Scale jolted Wenchuan County of Southwest China's Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. on Monday.  Earthquake was felt in Nanchong, Chengdu, Chongqing,  Zhengzhou and Lanzhou. The International Nurse Day  celebrated on the day of May 12.(Xinhua)

On Xin Guanghua Street, people are busy with setting up tents. But they are not for adults, instead they are for babies.

A nurse said, "We are from the Jinjiang Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics. I worried about my child very much at that time, but I didn't leave.

The doctors and nurses in the hospital continued working when the disaster hit---ensuring the safe arrival of every new life.

A doctor said, "We already moved out of the building. But a woman was going to deliver at 4:30 PM and we moved back to the hospital for the operation.

The baby's mother is grateful for the doctors and nurses dedication. The baby's father named their baby Zhensheng, meaning born in an earthquake.

Medical staff and nurses transfer the newborns to  a provisional rendezvous at open space, in Chengdu,  capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 12,  2008. Chengdu felt strong aftershocks on Tuesday morning,  after 9,219 people died in Monday's powerful earthquake,  the worst to strike China since the Tangshan earthquake  in north China's Hebei Province in 1976, which claimed  242,000 lives.The Sichuan Earthquake Networks reported  at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday that they recorded 1,180 aftershocks  in the past three hours, with the strongest measuring 6.0  on the Richter scale. The aftershocks included two  measuring 6.0 and 11 ones measuring between 5.0 and 5.9. (Xinhua Photo)

Police officers and ordinary citizens have come to help protect the infants. Even among the earthquake's destruction and the falling rain, these babies sleep safely in a warm and caring environment.

Editor:Zhang Ning