• Saudi mother gives birth at Bahrain airport

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  Feb 27

  MANAMA: A Saudi woman gave birth to a baby boy at the Bahrain International Airport on Wednesday. Mariam Yousif Al-Shoaibi was a transit passenger on her way from Qatar to Riyadh.

  The womans father was with her when they were scheduled to depart aboard a Gulf Air flight. The Airport Medical Clinic was informed after Mariam went into labor at the transit lounge.

  Doctors and nurses rushed to the scene and after a while the mother gave birth to a healthy boy. Mariam was later shifted in an ambulance to the Muharraq Maternity Hospital.

  The boy weighs about 3 kg. The mother and baby are fine and are waiting for doctors to declare them fit to travel, a nurse at the hospital said yesterday.

  This is the second delivery at the airport and the first this year. In 2006, a Pakistani woman was the first to deliver a baby at the Bahrain airport.

  

  

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