As we celebrated Christmas day as the country Cllr. Nonkosi Pepping visited the St Elizabeth and Holly Cross to give gifts to the mothers and babies that were born on Christmas Day.
Meanwhile, more than 500 babies were born across the country between midnight and midday on Christmas Day, many of them in Gauteng.
The health minister Joe Phaahla welcomed and congratulated the parents and healthcare professionals for the successful and safe delivery of the newborn.
In the Eastern Cape, the first baby was born a minute after midnight at Sipetu Hospital in Mount Frere.
Meanwhile, the department of health announced on Sunday that two 15-year-olds who gave birth at Prince Mshiyene Memorial Hospital, in Umlazi Durban in Kwa-Zulu Natal, and at Tonga Hospital in Mpumalanga, were among the young mothers.
While the department said provinces that recorded the first childbirths included Limpopo and Mpumalanga where healthy babies were born at the stroke of midnight at Voortrekker Hospital in Mokopane and Temba Hospital in Kabokweni outside Mbombela.
In an interview he did with Times LIVE the health department spokesperson said: “ The department wishes all mothers and babies a long and healthy journey of life and reminds all mothers to ensure their babies are up-to-date with immunization schedule accessible in the Road-to-Health booklet, otherwise known as Clinic card, to protect them against childhood diseases such as measles.”
