Angels of Mercy
Two County Derry women helped save the lives of several babies just minutes from death after a power failure in an African hospital.
By Connla Young
And they insist the children would have died had it not been for money donated by people in the county.
Kilrea woman Anne Dallat and Ballykelly’s Orla Beattie swung into action to save the little babies’ lives last weeks just hours after arriving in Malawi to help with an outreach orphanage project.
The babies hovered close to death after a power failure at Mlambe Hospital.
And the crisis deepened after a back-up generator at the cash-strapped hospital ran out of fuel.
Desperate doctors at the hospital were forced to beg for money to buy fuel as they battled to keep the seriously sick children alive.
But as the nightmare unfolded, the two local women stepped in to save the babies’ lives.
Anne and Orla, who arrived at the hospital just one hour earlier, used cash collected by the people of Kilrea to get the life-saving generator up and running, long enough for medical chiefs to stabilise the sick kids.
