By Alaa Shahine CAIRO, July 6 (Reuters) - The video shows a poorly lit hospital nursery filled with premature babies in incubators. Doctors are frantically trying to resuscitate some babies while others wail in the background after a night-time power cut. "God help us! Five are suffering from (cardiac) arrests?" a voice in the background says angrily. "We can handle one or two at most, but five?" "This is natural, doctor. It's been an hour and a half," says another male voice, apparently referring to the length of the power cut. A mobile phone camera caught this scene at Cairo's state-run Al-Matariya Educational Hospital in late May on a night when the electricity was cut for nearly three hours after midnight and back-up generators failed to work. Doctors at the hospital said the outage led to the deaths of four infants. The...
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