Maternity under bombing

Municipal maternity hospital of Chernihiv City.
February 27th, 2022.
Photo provided by Tetiana Holota, MD

Municipal maternity hospital of Chernihiv City.
February 27th, 2022.
Photo provided by Tetiana Holota, MD

 A woman is giving birth in the corridor during an air raid in Chernihiv.
 Doctors and patients of Chernihiv maternity hospital were hiding in the hospital corridor following the “Two walls rule”: if there is no shelter, hide in a room with two walls but no windows.

 Chernihiv空襲下の廊下での出産。
 Chernihiv産科病院の医師と患者は、「避難所がなければ、窓のない2つの壁のある部屋に隠れろ」という「2つの壁のルール」に従って、病院の廊下に隠れていた。

In the first days of the full-scale invasion, Chernihiv was almost encircled and there were no safe ways to escape from the city constantly shelled by air bombs, artillery, and missiles. Fires, explosions, blackouts, damaged water supply systems, and no food supply were a part of life in Chernihiv for more than a month.

本格的な侵攻の最初の数日間、Chernihivはほぼ包囲され、空爆、大砲、ミサイルの砲撃を受け続けた都市から逃れる安全な方法はなかった。Chernihivでは火災、爆発、停電、断水、食料不足が1カ月以上も続いた。

(注)一枚目の壁は直接的な爆弾や近隣での爆発衝撃により破壊・倒壊され、二枚目の壁がこの破壊された壁の破片を防ぐ、とされる。このため、地下室などのシェルターがない場合には廊下が避難場所として推奨される。なお、「二つの壁」と同じく原則とされるのが「二つの出口」であり、一つしかない出口の場所に隠れる行為は出口が瓦礫や火災に塞がれて閉じ込められるリスクが高くなるため推奨されていない。

Vinnytsia Regional Perinatal Center.
March 29th, 2022.
Photo provided by Tetiana Holota, MD

Vinnytsia Regional Perinatal Center.
March 29th, 2022.
Photo provided by Tetiana Holota, MD

 Organization of a makeshift basement at the maternity hospital in Vinnytsia at the beginning of the Russian war.
 At the beginning of the invasion hospital basements were not prepared to be bomb shelters. But during air raid sirens even cold basement rooms are safer for newborns and their mothers, as well as for the hospital personnel, than wards.

 ロシアの侵攻初期、Vinnytsiaの仮設地下産院の様子。
 侵攻当初、病院の地下室は防空壕として準備されていなかった。しかし、空襲警報が鳴り響く中、新生児とその母親、そして病院スタッフにとって、病棟よりも冷たい地下室の方が安全だった。

Exhibition Manager(展示責任者)
Oleksandra Riabets: MD, Bogomolets National Medical University (Kyiv, Ukraine); PhD student, Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University, Tokyo
Tetiana Yatsenko: Ph.D., Senior researcher, Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv; JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Juntendo University, Tokyo