The hospital donated the obsolete incubators to a kangaroo rescue center.
A nurse working at Kununurra District Hospital in Australia has donated the hospital's obsolete incubators to Kangaroo Haven Wildlife Rescue, a kangaroo rescue center in East Kimberly.
Jane Darlington came up with the idea while shopping. She saw a volunteer from the center raising awareness of their work, dressed in a kangaroo suit and holding one of the orphaned animals, and remembered that the hospital where she works needed to get rid of the incubators they no longer used.
Once used to help save premature human babies, these old incubators are now used to simulate the comfortable conditions that mothers' pouches give kangaroo babies during their first eight months of life.
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The director of Kangaroo Haven Wildlife Rescue, who dedicates her life to saving hundreds of orphaned kangaroo cubs whose mothers have been hunted or run over, was delighted with the help. Although she has helped many orphaned animals return to the wild, Mandy Watson has also seen thousands of cases where they don't even reach adulthood.
“In 20 years, we've released 823 back into the wild. It's very difficult, especially in the dry season, to keep the temperature constant. The incubator will have a constant temperature that will dramatically help save a few more lives,” Mandy Watson told ABC News.
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