A Grade 2 Medic of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) last Friday aided a mother with the delivery of her baby while enroute to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre on the East Bank of Demerara.
According to a GDF press release, Corporal Dominique Gonsalves-Sabola, attached to the Medical Centre at Base Camp Stephenson, Timehri, assisted the mother with delivering her baby while she was travelling to the hospital. The release noted that this was Gonsalves- Sabola’s third infant delivery. The release said that Donica Hunt, of Hyde Park, Timehri, had visited the Medical Centre on Friday and was complaining of labour pains.
Hunt was then prepped by Corporal Gonsalves-Sabola who was assisted by a Grade 3 Medic, Lance Corporal Sheena Christian-Waithe and the trio set out for the hospital. “We prepared her and had started the journey to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre. Just a few minutes into the journey her water broke and the baby was ready to come. I did the delivery and then we took our time and continued the journey to the hospital,” the corporal recounted. The mother and baby were handed over to the nurses of the Maternity Ward at the hospital and were in good health, the release stated.
Corporal Gonsalves-Sabola enlisted in the Guyana Defence Force in April 2013. He has successfully completed the Grade Three and the Grade Two Medical Assistant Courses. He has also successfully completed Infectious Disease and Combat Life Saver training as well as Self Aid and Buddy Care with the United States Southern Command, the GDF reported.
