By Adama Makasuba
Six new-borns will grow up knowing a president’s wife visited them in hospital and gave them money and other items because they jointly hold the record for being the first babies born in The Gambia in 2020.
Families basked in joy on Wednesday after Karpowership and Gamtel/Gamcel in partnership with the First Lady’s foundation gave them 75,000 dalasis and baby clothes after their babies emerged first-borns of 2020. The First Lady Fatoumatta Bah Barrow led a tour of hospitals to meet with the babies.
The babies totalled six – three boys and three girls – and all of them are from the Greater Banjul Area.
Oumie Bah of Yundum gave birth to the first baby of 2020 (a girl) at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital. She arrived at 12:40am weighing 3kg.
Haddy Mendy of Sinchu Alagie gave birth to the next first baby at EFSTH, a boy, who arrived at 01:50am weighing 4.5kg.
At Serrekunda General Hospital, Binta Jarssey from Sukuta emerged first woman to give birth to the first baby, a girl, while Binta Bojang of Wellingara came second, giving birth to a baby boy.
At Bundung Maternal Hospital, Anamas Mendy from Brikama became the first woman to give birth to the first babies in the form of twins but one of the twins died after delivery.
Sise Saho emerged second giving birth to a baby boy that weighed 3.68kg.
