The devastating explosion that rocked Beirut, earlier this week, left a pregnant woman rattled when the blast ripped through her hospital delivery room. Despite the deadly blast, doctors and staff helped the woman successfully deliver the baby boy. They returned home on Friday.
The explosion happened as the would-be mother, Emmanuelle Khnaisser, was being wheeled inside the room to give birth. The seismic wave that the blast generated shattered the windows of the room and tossed medical supplies all around, injuring doctors and nurses present there. While her husband Edmound was filming the final moments before the arrival of their son, the camera caught the incident.
“My son George was born under a catastrophic blast, I did not believe we came out alive,” Edmound told Reuters. He credited and said was grateful to the medical professionals, who didn’t leave their side, being scared and hurt themselves. The incident was filmed at Saint George Hospital, one of the worst-hit medical centres in the city that was left non-operational owing to the scale of damages.
The couple had to be then moved to another hospital 5 miles away to get further rest and treatment. Luckily, both mother and baby survived the explosion unharmed.
The hospital, where many nurses and patient lost their lives in the explosion, also went viral earlier, when a ‘hero nurse’ was seen cradling three newborn babies in their maternity wing after the blast.❐
