HC Deb 18 February 1991 vol 186 cc65-6W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his assessment of the effect of the war upon the usability of incubators in Iraq to save babies' lives.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

Allied forces have not attacked hospitals and there is no reason to believe that Iraqi hospitals have been unable to continue to function. By contrast, evidence was given to the United Nations Security Council on 27 November 1990 of the deaths of 120 new-born babies in a Kuwaiti hospital when they were taken from their incubators by the Iraqis.