Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University Tisch Hospital, after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Dozens of ambulances lined up outside NYU Tisch Hospital on Monday night as doctors and nurses began the slow process of taking people out.
30 October 2012
Twenty seriously ill babies had to be evacuated from a New York hospital after a back-up generator failed in the wake of Superstorm Sandy which has killed at least 16 people
The newborns who were being cared for in New York University Tisch Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit were on battery-powered respirators.
They had to be carried down nine flights of stairs where they were met by dozens of waiting ambulances to take them - and around 200 other patients - to nearby hospitals.
Dozens of ambulances lined up outside the hospital last night as doctors and nurses began the slow process of taking people out and transferring them to other medical facilities.
