As the Australian wildfires continue to burn, new reports say woman are giving birth in smoky delivery rooms, with alarming air quality.
have been raging since September and are only growing in intensity now that temperatures throughout the country are rising. According toexperts, nearly a half-billion plants and animals have been lost to the devastation so far, including thousands of precious koala bears. As the smoke continues to drift further inland, new reports are surfacing about the impact the fires are having on air quality in towns and cities across the region.
Steve Robson drove through a haze of brushfire smoke to deliver a baby in Canberra, Australia.last week, described the scene as a "smoky hell," but pressed onward until reaching the hospital."I had the little spotlight that you use to look at things and it went through the smoke and we all reali[z]ed that in this birth suite, this baby was born into bushfire smoke," the doctor shared.
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