Monday, January 18, 2010

Grateful Haitian mom names her baby "Israel"


Haitian mother who named her son "Israel" after Israeli medics delivered a baby boy
Photo courtesy IDF

Haitian mother names baby Israel

A Haitian woman whose baby was the first to be born in an Israeli field hospital set up in the capital has decided to name her son after her rescuers.

Baby Israel was in good health, a military spokesman confirmed. The woman, in her mid-20s gave birth naturally. The woman's husband is said to be missing and her three other children being cared for by her parents.

The hospital, with a capacity to treat up to 500 patients a day, was set up on a football field in Port-au-Prince within eight hours. It consists of a radiology department, an intensive care unit, an emergency room, two operating rooms and a pharmacy.
[Deutsche Presse-Agentur]
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