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Agency donates breathing devices for premature babies to Ukraine

FILE PHOTO: The damaged facade of a hospital is seen in Trostyanets, which staff said Russian troops fired at with tanks during their occupation of the town, Ukraine, March 30, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Global health aid agency Unitaid is donating 220 specialised portable breathing devices to Ukraine that can help save lives of premature babies even in frontline hospitals where there is no electrical power.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 has seen hundreds of hospitals damaged or destroyed, disrupting supply lines and placing newborn babies at risk of death or disability from a lack of access to equipment and oxygen.

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