In North West, there were 36 new born babies of which 6 of them were from Klerksdorp Hospital and warmly welcomed by the Health department MEC Madoda Sambatha.
Bonita Vos was the first mother to gave birth to her daughter around 02:08 weighing 3.4kg. And the second girl was born at 03:57 by the mother, Ntombizandile Dlamini weighing 3kg, followed by Anelisiwe Dalindyebo who gave birth at 04:35 also weighing 3kg girl. The fourth girl was born at 05:33 from the mother, Rosinah Lekoko weighing 3,2kg, the fifth mother, Catherine Masora gave birth to a girl at around 07:47 weighing 2,9kg and the lastly an only boy was born at 08:00 weighing 3,1kg.
MEC Sambatha congratulated all mothers who gave birth on New Year and also nurses who assisted, whilst gave newborn babies gifts.
Sambatha thanked nurses for working successfully, so that mothers can be ready to go back home quickly or the following day after a successful work.
In Mpumalanga, Shadow Malibe was the first person to deliver a bouncing baby boy at the Mapulaneng Hospital.
The 23-year-old from Bushbuckridge was admitted in hospital on Friday, 30 December and only delivered her baby on Sunday, 01 January. She told Daily Sun that she was happy to have finally delivered her baby although it was not an easy thing.
"I am happy that I was able to deliver a healthy baby. I now have another part of my life," she said
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By 10H00 42 babies were born in different hospitals in the province. Twenty four of the babies are males and eighteen are females. Health MEC, Sasekani Manzini has congratulated all the mothers and further urged them to get their children vaccinated.
"We want to congratulate all the mothers, so far as a province we have delivered 42 babies which of 24 are males and 18 are females. Here where we are only one mother delivered a baby this morning, she delivered a big healthy male baby.
We want to congratulate them and also urge them to take their children to the primary health care so that they get vaccinated. Currently we have an outbreak of measles, so we want to request all the mothers to take their children for vaccination, "she said
She further raised concerns about teenagers giving birth. At least five teenagers mothers have delivered babies this morning.
" We are still saying to the communities let's work together in educating our children and also as a department we are doing our part in terms of awareness campaigns, visiting schools, areas and making sure that we talk to our teenagers to focus on school and not on adult things at an early age. We are going to continue with the program so that we work together with them, "she said
