NEW YORK — A NYU Langone Medical Center nurse has spoken of how medical staff carried sick babies down nine flights of stairs during an evacuation in the midst of Superstorm Sandy.
Margot Condon, an ICU nurse, walked newborn babies down the stairs along with fellow doctors and nurses. Four of these babies relied on respirators to breathe, and with no power to run the respirators, each baby was carried down nine flights of stairs while Condon manually squeezed a bag to deliver air to the babies’ tiny lungs.