Saturday 2 January 2021
FIRST BABY GIRL: Kerlise Farraday smiles as her daughter is greeted by the Health Minister. She was the second mother to give birth at the San Fernando General Hospital for 2021. -
JUST six seconds into 2021, a woman at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) delivered this country’s first New Year’s Day baby.
Asha Dookie delivered a boy at 12.06 am who weighed 2.73 kilogrammes on Friday.
Health Minister Terrence Delaysingh made the announcement at a press conference on Friday at the nearby Teaching Hospital where he congratulated the mothers on their bundles of joy.
Owing to the pandemic, media personnel were not allowed to meet the mothers and their newborns at the maternity ward as is traditionally done.