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Monday, April 28, 2025

Ten babies born at San Fernando hospital

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De­spite a short­age of nurs­es, 10 ba­bies were born at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal be­fore mid­night on the labour ward of the hos­pi­tal.How­ev­er, as the new year came, on­ly two births were record­ed at the in­sti­tu­tion. One of the ba­bies was born at home in St Mary's vil­lage, Moru­ga, while the oth­er was de­liv­ered via cae­sar­i­an sec­tion af­ter two days of con­trac­tions.

Mar­isha Mills was the first to de­liv­er for the new year. She said she got con­trac­tions around 10 pm on New Year's Eve but as she wait­ed for an am­bu­lance to take her to the hos­pi­tal, she re­alised time was run­ning out. "My moth­er Mar­va Mills and my aunt Ann Mitchell got every­thing ready and I had the ba­by at home. When the para­medics came they cut the um­bil­i­cal cord," Mills said. Say­ing she was de­light­ed to have a daugh­ter, Mills said she was yet to de­cide on a name."Her fa­ther will choose a name. he is very ex­cit­ed to have a daugh­ter," Mills said. Her ba­by weighed 3.14 kg and was de­liv­ered at 1.30 am.

Mean­while, 22-year-old Rosa Ram­lo­gan, of Guaracara Tabaquite Road, al­so cel­e­brat­ed the birth of her daugh­ter. Ram­lo­gan said she start­ed get­ting labour pains on Tues­day and was tak­en to hos­pi­tal for ob­ser­va­tion."The ba­by's heart beat was rais­ing and they de­cid­ed to do an emer­gency C-sec­tion," Ram­lo­gan said. Say­ing she re­ceived the best gift for the new year, Ram­lo­gan said she and her hus­band Bri­an Sama­roo were yet to de­cide on a name for the ba­by.

Mean­while, a source at the hos­pi­tal said the last few hours of the new year was a night­mare be­cause of the short­ages of nurs­es and at­ten­dants. "It was so bad that doc­tors had to push trol­leys," the source added. Of­fi­cials at the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty said they are keep­ing a log of all the nurs­es who stayed away from du­ty dur­ing the hol­i­days.


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