POLICE OFFICERS HELP WOMAN DELIVER BABY Just after 8 p.m., on Monday June 30, Tanya Jackson was in labour and just minutes away from giving birth. Instead of the 25-year old being in the safety and assurance of a hospital bed delivering her unborn child with the help of healthcare professionals, she lay on the floor of a public bathroom in Spanish Town bus park, alone. In a stroke of serendipity, members of the St. Catherine North Street Crime Unit were on foot patrol in the bus park at the same time when they were approached by a member of the public who informed team leader Sergeant Hugh Morgan that Tanya was about to give birth. Sergeant Morgan took to his radio and quickly alerted the team, who had split up in the bus park, while also requesting an ambulance to be sent to the location to assist. Hearing this radio call, the rest of the Street Crime Unit converged on the bathroom where there discovered Ms. Jackson supine with a baby close by her. “I would know that the umbilical cord and the placenta would always be attached to the baby until the doctor cuts the umbilical cord, so it was just on me just to take that baby to the hospital and just ensure the baby reached the hospital safely- that was just my thing,” explained Woman Constable Simone Lewis who was the first to pick up the baby from the bathroom floor. Woman Constable Lewis said that as a woman her maternal instincts automatically kicked in and that the Jamaica Constabulary Force was about more than fighting crime. “My only intention was to make sure that the baby is safely transported to the hospital, and I have to say thumbs up to the rest of my team members as well, because them being men they don’t really understand certain things”. Sergeant Morgan, Woman Constable Lewis alongside Constable Francis, Constable Brown and several other team members assisted the new mother and her baby boy inside a waiting service vehicle where they rushed her to the Spanish Town hospital and left them in the care of the maternity area. “It will go down in the history books for myself,” Sergeant Morgan told The Gleaner. “And I know I can speak on the behalf of my other team members, it’s a day that all of us will remember”. jamaica-gleaner/gleaner/20140703/news/news6.html
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 02:49:15 +0000
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