Pramila Jayapal: “Thanks to the sanctions, the hospital can't replace those…”

“He was in one of the very few remaining working incubators. The other delicate machines had been damaged by the rolling blackouts and the subsequent power surges as the generators kicked on. And Thanks to the sanctions, the hospital can't replace those broken incubators. Alejandro was in an NICU unit with other babies, some of whom were on ventilators. Sometimes those ventilators have to be manually pumped because there's no energy to power them.” (05:23–05:29)

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