A YOUNG paramedic has been praised after she helped deliver a baby at the side of the road during her first shift.
As reported in last week’s UH, Declan and Gemma-Louise Molloy from outside Ballygawley dramatically welcomed their third child, Leo, into the world on the roadside during the early hours of a freezing morning.
Despite the couple’s best attempt to get to South West Acute Hospital on time, the baby wasn’t waiting around and they had to pull over at Fivemiletown Mart where proud father Declan delivered his new born baby son in the passenger seat of the couple’s car.
A Co Tyrone dad, who delivered his newborn baby son in a car park on the coldest night of the year, has praised a young paramedic who talked him through the birth over the phone while on her very first night shift.
Declan Molloy (34) and his wife Gemma-Louise (36), from outside Ballygawley, dramatically welcomed their third child, Leo, into the world on the roadside in the early hours of Sunday morning.
They were making their way to the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen when Gemma realised they were not going to arrive in time and told Declan to ring 999.
On the other end of the phone assisting them was newly qualified Laura Maxwell who had picked up their urgent call in the Ambulance Service’s Emergency Control Room after they pulled up outside Fivemiletown Mart in thick freezing fog and temperatures of -4C.