Augusta Hospital Takes In Newborns Evacuated From Savannah

AUGUSTA, GA — An Augusta health center is accepting neonatal patients from coastal areas in Georgia ordered to evacuate because of Hurricane Irma. Twelve of their new patients are newborns from Savannah, according to reports. (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)

WRDW News 12 reports the Children's Hospital of Georgia is accepting the newborn babies, including 10-day old Brantley Dowd from Savannah.

When Irma reaches Georgia early next week, it will bring inches of rain, a risk of tornadoes and winds—surely not the right environment for newborns. All Savannah residents are ordered to evacuate the city Saturday and Sunday.

Dowd's mother, Victoria, said they found out Friday that Brantley would be transported to Augusta from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Memorial Health in Savannah.

Watch: Georgia Coastal Residents Instructed To Evacuate

SEE ALSO:

• Hurricane Irma: Evacuation Zone Times For Chatham County
  
• Hurricane Irma: List Of Georgia Evacuation Shelters, Where To Take Pets
• Hurricane Irma: Savannah Evacuees Get Free Bus Service To Staging Area
• Hurricane Irma: Check Savannah Grocery Store Hours Here
• Southeast Georgia Evacuations Ordered, Red Cross Shelter Locations
• Hurricane Irma: Georgia Ports To Close In Savannah, Brunswick
• Hurricane Irma: 'Freight Train' Of A Storm Barrels Toward Florida, Georgia, Carolinas

The Dowds were given a room at the Ronald McDonald house so they could stay close to their newborn in the new city.

See the full report here.

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