'No fuel to keep babies warm': shortages push hospitals in Yemen's Taiz to brink

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Fuel shortages in besieged Taiz have forced the Yemeni-Swedish Hospital to reduce the number of operating incubators from 40 to 10, putting newborns at risk. Weeks of fighting have disrupted vital supplies, worsening a humanitarian crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Fuel shortages in Yemen's besieged city of Taiz have forced one hospital to cut the number of incubators it can operate from 40 to 10, putting newborn babies at risk as weeks of fighting choke off vital supplies and deepen a humanitarian crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of people. "There's no oxygen, there's no fuel to run the incubators, to keep the babies warm," said Nada Ahmed, a nurse in the neonatal unit of the Yemeni-Swedish Hospital for Maternity and Childhood.