Ramona Méndez, a poor resident in nearby La Caleta, visited Las Americas International Airport on Friday, 5 November to apply for a job. The 29-year old woman had no idea that she would go into labor that day. She gave birth prematurely in the airport parking lot to a six-pound girl. Mother and child were taken to the Hospital Materno-Infantil San Lorenzo de Los Mina in Santo Domingo by an airport ambulance. Airport governor Arístides Fernández Zucco authorized that the airport cover the baby’s first year expenses.
