Romanian nurse praised by Barack Obama

After the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at New York University’s Langone Medical Center was affected by a power cut during hurricane Sandy, Romanian woman Claudia Roman and her colleagues from this Intensive Care have become national heroines due to the way they acted during the event. They were congratulated by the US president Barack Obama.

During the hurricane, several nurses, among which Claudia Roman, were getting ready to change shifts when the electricity suddenly stopped in the building.  All the machines that were keeping alive premature new born babies, with breathing or heart problems, stopped, as abcnews.go.com reports.

The machines immediately started with the back- up generator, but this only had a four hour working autonomy. The babies had to be urgently evicted.  As the elevators were not working, the nurses had to carry them in their arms, on the stairs, from the 9th floor. All this time they ensured artificial breathing with some manual pumps.

Claudia Roman, Nicola Zanzotta-Tagle, Margot Condon, Sandra Kyong Bradbury, Beth Largey, Annie Irace and Menchu Sanchez are the seven nurses who were praised by president Barack Obama, who gave them as example for what the USA have best to offer.

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