Philippines: A Premature Baby Goes Home on Christmas Day | Doctors Without Borders

Philippines: A Premature Baby Goes Home on Christmas Day | Doctors Without Borders:

Angel Corate gave birth to baby Janel on December 16 by Caesarean section. She underwent this lifesaving operation, and she and Janel received ongoing care, at the maternity ward and newborn unit in the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) inflatable hospital in Tacloban. Nine days later, Angel and Janel were discharged on Christmas Day, just in time to celebrate with their family.

Janel Corate was born one month premature on Monday, December 16. Her mother, 31-year-old Angel, had been rushed to MSF’s inflatable hospital in Tacloban from another MSF health facility in nearby Tanauan.

 

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Baby Janel, who was born one month premature in Tacloban, went home to her family on Christmas day.