By Staff Reporter
At least 650 babies were delivered in public health facilities across the country between midnight and 5pm on new year’s day, according to the Department of Health.
In the Eastern Cape, 118 babies were born – 56 of them boys and 62 girls. In Gauteng, 203 babies were born, comprising 105 boys and 98 girls. In the Western Cape, there were 13 girls and were 19 boys, and KwaZulu-Natal welcomed 131 babies.
A total of 24 babies born in the Free State, 19 in Limpopo, 67 in Mpumalanga, 41 in the North West and 19 in the Northern Cape.
One of the youngest mothers was a 12-year-old girl in the Eastern Cape.
Social development MEC Bukiwe Fanta visited Cecilia Makhiwane and Bhisho hospitals on New Year’s Day.
She said the “perpetrator who impregnated a 12-year-old [girl] must be found and jailed”.
“Whoever impregnates children, no matter who
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