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Updated: 4 Feb 2021, 20:06
A STUNNED dad has told of his delight after his pregnant wife gave birth in the front seat of his jeep in a scene like something out of The Snapper .
Mum-of-five Naomi Galvin, 27, miraculously gave birth to baby Ellie with her feet up on the dashboard outside an Applegreen petrol station in Co Kildare on Wednesday night.
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Naomi gave birth to Ellie in the front seat of John s jeep outside a petrol station
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Little Ellie was born at a petrol station
The chaotic scene unfolded as her long-term partner John Feane was frantically trying to reach the Coombe Hospital in Dublin but was forced to pull in just ten minutes into the hour-long journey in Carragh after realising they were not going to make it to the hospital.
Photo: AFP
The Director-General of Health, Leausa Dr Take Naseri, said in times of a pandemic everyone needed to support and take part in a mass vaccination.
Leausa said front-line workers such as health personnel would be priorities to receive the vaccine.
The UN resident co-ordinator in Samoa, Dr Simona Marinescu, said the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility, or COVAX, approved up to 50,000 vaccine doses for Samoa, enough for 20 percent of the population and officials. She said the vaccine should be in Samoa before the end of March.
Leausa said that would not be enough doese but Samoa was finalising plans with aid partners to fund vaccinations for a further 40 percent of the population as part of the COVAX facility agreement, to ensure around 120,000 people (or 60 percent of the population) are vaccinated this year.
Samoa will receive its first shipment of Pfizer vaccine by the end of March with the Ministry of Health looking at legal options for people who would not want to be immunised.
The vaccinators administered anti-polio drops to more than 95 per cent of the 745,863 target children in Peshawar, according to a press release. APP/File
PESHAWAR: The authorities claimed to have vaccinated 95 per cent of the target children against polio in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and efforts were underway to reach the missed children on the last day of the seven-day drive that ended on Sunday.
Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Ali Asghar and his team visited the hotspots of refusal against the vaccine and wooed parents to immunise their children against the crippling disease.
The administration has been able to convince hundreds of parents in Peshawar, the epicentre of defiance against polio vaccination, to administer oral polio drops to the children below the age of five.