Ronel Peters (51), a former pharmaceutical medical representative and the founder of Ruach Elohim Foundation, has come to the rescue of six more abandoned babies last Tuesday. She says she has read about abandoned babies who were accommodated at Windhoek’s Katutura Intermediate Hospital, and decided to take action. “Our private social worker, Catrien du Toit,...
The Rauch Elohim Foundation has employed a social worker to support the Baby Saver Box initiative, following a donation from Rossing Uranium. The Rossing Foundation gave N$350,000 to enhance the impact of the initiative on baby dumping. As a way to curb rampant baby dumping in Namibia, the Baby Saver Box is a place where...
By Adolf Kaure. The Ruach Elohim Foundation who cares for abandoned, neglected and abused babies in Swakopmund received a substantial boost from the Rössing Foundation when the latter blessed the foundation with a N$350,000 donation. From the total donation, N$240 000 has been allocated to enhance the social work expertise of the Foundation which is...
Maria David THE Oshakati Intermediate Hospital welcomed ten babies born on New Year’s Day. Of those babies, five are males and five are females. Medical Superintendent Ruben S. Kanime said of the ten, only one is admitted to the Prem-Unit due to prematurity. Overall, Kanime indicated that the festive season has been uneventful for their...
Ten babies were delivered on New Year’s Day at Rhino Park, Katutura, and Windhoek Central hospitals. Four bouncing baby boys were born in the Central Hospital, while three girls and one boy were delivered at the Katutura Hospital. Rhino Park Hospital delivered one boy and a girl. The first two babies were born two and three minutes before one o’clock, respectively, at Central and Katutura Hospitals. ...
OTJIWARONGO: The Otjiwarongo State Hospital in the Otjozondjupa Region recorded the births of three baby girls and one boy on Christmas Day here. A registered nurse at the hospital’s maternity ward, Linea Tuna on Tuesday told Nampa that her team of nurses on Christmas Day assisted four women to deliver their healthy babies at the...
WINDHOEK: The Katutura State Hospital in Windhoek recorded 15 births on Christmas Day this year, of which nine are girls and six boys. Mathew Herman, a Senior Midwife at the hospital said that a premature baby forms part of the group of babies born, noting that the baby was born through an emergency C-section as...
Oshakati Intermediate Hospital has recorded a total of 18 babies born on Christmas Day. Of these babies, 12 are boys and six are girls, and 11 involved natural births and seven caesarean sections. The hospital’s superintendent, Ruben Kanime, says there were no complications with any of these births. “We would like to congratulate the new...