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A woman gave birth prematurely on a flight to Hawaii. Luckily, 3 NICU nurses and a doctor were on board to help
Lauren M. Johnson, CNN • Published 4th May 2021
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(CNN) There were a lot of surprises on a flight to Hawaii last week, starting with the birth of a baby to a woman who didn t know she was pregnant.
Not only did there happen to be a doctor on board the Salt Lake City-Honolulu flight, but there were also three neonatal intensive care nurses and all of them immediately got to work. About halfway through the flight, there was an emergency call, and I ve experienced this before and usually they re pretty clear asking if there is a doctor on board, Hawaii Pacific Health family medicine physician Dr. Dale Glenn said in a news release from the hospital system. This call was not like this and it was fairly urgent. I let the flight attendant know that I m a physician and she said we have a woman having a ba