4 Chinese ‘angel’ nurses celebrated for helping woman deliver baby in the street on their way home after long hospital shift
- The four nurses had just finished work around 1am on Tuesday when they came across a man and his wife giving birth
- The four acted quickly to lay the woman down and ensure the birth was completed safely and are now being hailed as heroes in China
Four nurses in China who helped deliver a baby in the street after they finished work are being hailed as “angels” in the country,
The four nurses from Kunshan city, Jiangsu province, eastern China, Liu Min, Ding Liuyun, Wang Tiantian and Wang Susu, had just left the hospital at about 1am on Tuesday. A few steps away from the hospital, Liu came across the sound of a baby crying and went over to investigate.
The nurses found a man helping his pregnant wife to the hospital, holding her arm while she was doubled over holding her knee with her hand mid-birth.
Realising what was happening the nurses sprang into action to prevent the baby from falling on the ground, and to protect the placenta from being pulled out because it would risk her life, they cleared some space and helped her lay down.
When the four nurses knelt down to check, they saw that the baby girl was halfway out of the mother. She was crying, her face livid as she struggled.
The baby began to cry again a minute after the nurses cleared mucus from her mouth and nose, and patted her feet.
“From that moment on, we felt our heartbeats again,” Liu, the chief nurse at the emergency medical department, told Chinese news site Xie Video.
