These Taiwanese Nurses Rushed To Protect Babies When The Earthquake Hit And People Say They’re Heroes
After gathering the babies in the middle of the room, the nurses used their bodies to try to steady and shield the cribs.
After Taiwan was hit by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on Wednesday April 3, a video has gone viral showing nurses rushing to protect newborn babies at a postpartum center in the capital, Taipei.
CCTV video from the Ma Cherie Postpartum Center showed three nurses dressed in pink uniforms rushing into a room with newborn babies the moment the earthquake hit and pushing their cribs away from windows and shelves on the side of the room.
After gathering the babies in the middle of the room, the nurses used their bodies to try to steady and shield the cribs.
The video quickly went viral on Taiwanese social media and soon was widely covered in the west also.
People said the nurses were “angels on earth” and that not all heroes wear capes.
“When the earthquake struck, their first thought was to protect others. They are brave beyond words,” someone wrote on Threads.
Others expressed their gratitude to the nurses for their dedication to their work.
“Grateful for you. If I were the babies’ parents, I would be moved to tears,” another person wrote.
“Of course we were scared; it’s human nature,” Ying-qin Chen, a supervisor at the postpartum center told Yahoo News. “But the safety of the babies comes first.”
The postpartum center told local TV that it holds drills every year to prepare for different types of natural disasters.
The magnitude 7.2 earthquake was the biggest in Taiwan in 25 years, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
