CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga, Philippines – Two police officers helped a woman deliver her baby inside a passenger bus in Sta. Ignacia, Tarlac on Friday.
Inspectors Mavidette Ongjunco and Arnel Cera were on board a 5-Star passenger bus bound for Pangasinan when a passenger, Mary Rose Palisoc, 21, asked for help as she was having labor pains.
Ongjunco and Cera, both nursing graduates, immediately responded and helped Palisoc, who deliver a baby boy 40 minutes later.
Senior Superintendent Alfred Corpus, Tarlac police director, said the area where Palisoc started feeling birthing pains was far from the hospital. The baby’s due was supposed to be on Aug. 5.
The bus driver drove the mother and son straight to the Gilbert Teodoro District Hospital in Malacampa, Camiling town where the baby’s umbilical cord was cut.
Doctors said both mother and son were in good condition.
Corpus said Ongjunco and Cera were lateral entrants engaged in an on-the-job field training. The two took the bus to the Camiling police station where they were assigned.
Chief Superintendent Ricardo Marquez, Police Regional Office 1 director, will commend Ongjunco and Cera in tomorrow’s flag raising ceremony at the PRO1 headquarters in Pangasinan.