‘MIRACLE’ BABY SURVIVES 2HRS WITH UMBILICAL CORD UNCUT

MANZINI – After spending about two hours with the umbilical cord still intact and not breastfeeding, a newborn would be best described as a miracle baby.

This comes after a 20-year-old woman experienced a rather unfortunate incident after the Emergency Medical Services Department (EMS) failed to live up to expectation. *Zethu was at kaNdlunganye at the homestead where she rents a flat when she suddenly went into labour last Friday.

According to eyewitnesses, the EMS personnel, also known as 977, were called at around 1:30pm and 2pm; just after Zethu showed signs of being in labour. The source said on the first call, the officer who answered the phone promised that an ambulance would come to ferry her to hospital.

However, after some time passed without the ambulance in sight, the good Samaritans who were with Zethu when her water broke called again but this time, the response they got was unfavourable.

The good Samaritans said the officer who answered told them that there was no ambulance available as all vehicles went for service hence they should explore other options of getting the woman to hospital. At this point, the sources said it was around 3pm and that Zethu had already given birth to her daughter.

“The person who answered the phone said we should try the Fire and Emergency Services Department but when we called, we were told that the department was not equipped to deal with such cases,” one of the women stated. The sources said Zethu’s water broke while she was inside a salon that is situated in the same compound where she lived. There, she was in the company of others when she complained of being nauseous.

“Just when she was about to go out, her water broke and soon thereafter, she gave birth to her child,” a source said.
Not knowing what to do with the crying baby who was still dangling from the umbilical cord, the sources said they opted to find vehicles to get the mother and child to hospital but efforts to that effect proved futile.

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