Cross posted from the Nature Middle East blog House of Wisdom on behalf of Mohammed Yahia.

Public hospitals in Egypt are not always the cleanest or healthiest options. They are overcrowded and understaffed – often with inexperienced staff. Egypt has the highest prevalence of Hepatitis C and most experts say this is a result of neglect in the healthcare sector.

But yesterday, pictures taken from one of the teaching hospitals in Egypt started to surface on social networks and shocked viewers at the level of neglect. The pictures come from the neonatal unit in the El-Shatby Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt.

Here are the images posted online:

The images were taken by Dr. Magdy Badr El-Deen, a pediatrician at the hospital, to draw attention to the disastrous conditions the babies are put in within the neonatal unit. They are packed together in a small little bed at a stage when their immune systems are not yet fully functional.

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