A member of the Metro Specialized Security Corps who is a medical student at the Eugenio Maria de Hostos University, Angel Marino Montero, delivered a baby in the Maria Montez Metro station yesterday Tuesday, 17 September.
The baby girl, who weighed seven and a half pounds, will be named Maria Angelica after the station and the student who brought her into the world.
The 24-year old mother, Yajaira de Jesus Bonilla, boarded the train en route to the La Altagracia Maternity Hospital from Los Alcarrizos at around 9:30pm but the baby began to arrive and the train was stopped at the Maria Montez station for more than an hour.
Montero said that he had finished his shift at 10pm but had stayed around, which was fortuitous as he was able to help the mother deliver the baby.
Mother and baby were taken to the Marcelino Velez Santana Hospital in Herrera. The mother received two baskets of baby products donated by the Ministry of the Armed Forces and a metro card with 50 free tickets, valued at RD$1,000, from the deputy director of the Metro, Leonel Carrasco.
According to reports, the mother, who has two other children, complained that despite giving birth in the Metro the hospital now wants to charge her RD$8,000 for post-natal care.
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www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2013/9/17/292522/Estudiante-de-Medicina-fue-quien-hizo-el-parto-anoche-en-el-metro