“There is still work to do because they are very premature,” Alaoui told CNN. “They need to gain weight, they need to breastfeed. There are lots of problems waiting for us.”
The babies were born weighing between 1.1 and 2.4 pounds, after a pregnancy of just 30 weeks. Five were hooked up to ventilators immediately after their birth via C-section.
More than 72 hours later, three are still intubated, relying on the machines to pump air into their tiny lungs, the hospital’s communications director, Abdelkoddous Hafsi, said in a video shared by Groupe Akdital, which owns the clinic.
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