Gaza hospital reports rise in stillbirths and neonatal deaths

Doctors at a Gaza hospital say a growing number of women have suffered pregnancy losses or complications, and there has been a rise in stillbirths and neonatal deaths.

TEL AVIV — When Mai Kamal Zaqout learned she was pregnant in December, she and her husband, Ahmad, felt something they hadn’t experienced in many weeks in Gaza: happiness — a glimmer of optimism amid the war’s devastation and despair.

Zaqout, 22, said Ahmad placed his hand on her belly and told her: “This is it. She is our last hope.”

But within months, that hope was shattered.

Ahmad, 29, was killed in an airstrike.

Then Zaqout fled south to Rafah, where more than a million people have sought refuge, in hopes of giving birth to her daughter in safety.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-hospital-stillbirths-neonatal-deaths-rcna145582

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