23 ‘official’ New Year babies for Iloilo
The Year of the Ox officially welcomed 23 New Year babies in Iloilo City. Officially that is, as it could be more for others who were born outside the hospitals here.
It is still a regular occurrence throughout the province’s 1,721 barangays and the city’s 180 barangays to have home-assisted childbirths.
Complete records of first 2009 births are expected to come in within the week yet in six Iloilo City hospitals, the record stands at 23.
In a report, The News Today (TNT) gathered eight “Ox” babies were born at the Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) and seven at the West Visayas State University Medical Center (WVSUMC).
Three were recorded at the Saviour Hospital including twins, two at the Saint Therese Hospital, two at the Iloilo Mission Hospital and one at the Amosup Hospital.