Pregnant Woman at 21 Weeks With Ruptured Membranes Delivers Baby in Ambulance With 119 Assistance

A high-risk pregnant woman, whose amniotic sac ruptured at 21 weeks of pregnancy, successfully gave birth inside an ambulance with the assistance of the fire authorities.

According to the Daejeon Fire Headquarters, a call was received by 119 at around 7:15 PM yesterday (November 2) from an official at an OB-GYN clinic requesting an emergency dispatch for a high-risk pregnant woman facing imminent childbirth.

The pregnant woman in her 30s, surnamed A, was at 21 weeks of gestation and experienced severe abdominal pain along with the rupture of her amniotic membranes that day. However, emergency delivery was virtually impossible at that hospital.

The fire authorities searched for hospitals in Daejeon and neighboring regions, but given that it was an extremely premature birth, no hospital responded saying that immediate admission and delivery were possible.

In the meantime, woman A experienced severe labor pains while waiting inside the ambulance, and underwent an emergency delivery inside the vehicle with the help of the emergency rescue workers.

At the time, the fire authorities had deployed two ambulances and six emergency workers to prepare for the possibility of childbirth by woman A.

After receiving a response from a hospital in Sejong that admission was possible, the fire authorities transferred woman A and the newborn to the hospital at around 9:16 PM, about two hours after the initial report.

The Daejeon Fire Headquarters stated, "Because it was an emergency situation and we could not simply wait for a hospital transfer, the workers delivered the baby inside the ambulance," adding, "Both the mother and the newborn are currently receiving treatment at the hospital."

Reported by Son Hyeong-an | Video by IYOO | Graphics by Yook Do-hyun | Produced by SBS Digital News
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