The Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, in Palma, has reported this Monday the birth of the first baby of a Ukrainian refugee mother in Mallorca. 37 year old Natasha’s water broke at Sant Joan de Déu, and as there was no Delivery Unit at the center, she was transferred to the Hospital de Son Espases.
1000 Ukrainian refugees received in the Balearic Islands
As explained by the Hospital in a press release, of the approximately 1000 Ukrainian citizens who have been received on the islands, 300 arrived coordinated through the Red Cross. Of these, the organization transferred 38 to the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Palma.
One of these 38 people is Natasha, a 37-year-old woman, born in Odessa, who arrived at the hospital more than eight months pregnant. Four weeks later she gave birth in Son Espases to a baby weighing 3.7kg named Leónidas.
The managing director of Sant Joan de Déu Palma-Inca, Joan Carulla, said that “it is great news” that a baby has been born among the refugees in the Hospital. “Life finds a way despite the horror of war and for Sant Joan de Déu, whose hospitality is home to all, it is a great joy to know that Leónidas will spend his first stage of life with us”, he concluded.
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