Off-duty RK Khan midwife helps deliver baby on side of road
KZN Health has heaped praise on an RK Khan Hospital midwife who jumped into action to help a woman deliver her baby on the side of the road in Chatsworth.
Gonum Govender had just arrived home from work when community members called her to help a homeless woman in labour on Wednesday.
"Still in her nurse uniform, she dropped her bad and rushed to the scene on Florence Nightingale road, where a member of the community had already secured surgical gloves, towels and a sheet for the mother as well as a blanket for the baby," says the department's Mdu Ncalane.
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Ncalane says the nurse, who is due to retire next year, used a pair of scissors supplied by a community member to cut umbilical cord.
The baby was rushed to RK Khan for further care.
"The courageous manner in which this situation has been handled restores faith in our public health faculties,” Ncalane says.
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