Dr. Aisha Khatib, a professor at the University of Toronto, was on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Entebbe for about an hour when she was told by loudspeakers if there was a doctor on board.
Dr. Khatib, despite being exhausted from a work program in Toronto plagued by the coronavirus, did not hesitate at all.
“I got up immediately and saw a crowd gathered around a woman,” Dr Khatib told BBC News.
A Ugandan immigrant traveling home from Saudi Arabia was about to give birth to her first child.
“As I approached, I saw this woman lying in the seat with her head towards the corridor and her feet towards the window. And the baby was coming out! ” Dr Khatib was assisted by two other passengers – an oncology nurse and a pediatrician from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The baby was crying “loudly,” he said.
After a quick check-up, he handed the baby to the pediatrician for a more careful check-up. “I looked at the baby and he was stable, and I looked at the mom and she was fine,” says Dr. Khatib. “Well, I said, ‘Congratulations, girl.’ Then the whole plane started applauding and cheering and it was like “Oh, right, I’m on a plane and everyone is watching that.”
After the birth, the woman was placed in the first place of the plane as we read in the announcement made by the airline QATAR Airways
«The best part of the story is that he decided to give in baby my name and word miracle».
As a gift to her namesake, she gave Miracle Aisha the gold necklace she wore with the name Aisha written in Arabic, Dr Khatib told BBCnews.
«I thought I would give it to her and she would have a small sample of the doctor who gave birth to her 35,000 feet in the air while flying over the Nile».
The birth took place on Dec. 5, but Dr. Khatib was too busy treating Covid patients in Toronto to share the photos until this week.
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