Woman stranded in Pasay gives birth to healthy baby on street; paramedic tells story

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MANILA, Philippines — A 28-year-old woman gave birth on Tuesday night to a healthy baby girl, with some help from her husband, right out in the open — in front of the World Trade Center on Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay.

A team of paramedics dispatched by the Pasay Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, which had been called by the city’s traffic base, arrived at 6:23 p.m., just as soon as the baby came out.

Mark Anthony Castillo, a nurse who was part of the team, related to INQUIRER.net over the phone what happened.

“I could not figure out then how the mommy managed to get the baby out,” Castillo said in Filipino. “But they [husband and a bystander] said she had j…

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