{"id":7457,"date":"2012-01-29T03:17:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/city-fire-and-rescue-services-crew-go-the-extra-mile-to-deliver-premature-baby\/"},"modified":"2012-01-29T03:17:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:17:13","slug":"city-fire-and-rescue-services-crew-go-the-extra-mile-to-deliver-premature-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/city-fire-and-rescue-services-crew-go-the-extra-mile-to-deliver-premature-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"City Fire and Rescue Services crew go the extra mile to deliver premature baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services crew members recently went above and beyond the call of duty when they assisted in the delivery of a baby in a grocer\u2019s store on Voortrekker Road. <\/p>\n

On Monday, 16 January 2012, a crew was dispatched to a maternity call in Parow. On arrival, they found a 21 year-old woman who was seven months pregnant. She was in an advanced stage of labour and the crew soon realised they would have to perform an emergency delivery of the premature infant. <\/p>\n

The new-born baby was found to be unresponsive, was not breathing and had no pulse. Hypoxia had also discoloured the infant\u2019s skin, which was prominently blue. <\/p>\n

The crew recognised the seriousness of the situation and acted in accordance with standard infant rescue resuscitation protocols. Numerous attempts ensured the spontaneous return of the infant\u2019s breathing and circulation. <\/p>\n

Both infant and mother were referred to the nearest hospital in a stable condition. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe crew who assisted will receive a formal commendation of service from the City for not only displaying exceptional skill but peak proficiency within their scope of practice. Their quick-thinking and hard work saved the infant\u2019s life,\u201d said the City\u2019s Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, Alderman J.P. Smith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services crew members recently went above and beyond the call of duty when they assisted in the delivery of a baby in a grocer\u2019s store on Voortrekker Road. On Monday, 16 January 2012, a crew was dispatched to a maternity call in Parow. On arrival, they found a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1737,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-7457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-cape-town-2","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-municipality","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}