Nineteen births recorded at New Year's Day

Nineteen births were recorded at the government hospitals in Accra on Wednesday, New Year's day, 01 January 2003.

The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital recorded the highest number of births of 15 babies, including the first male baby to be born on New Year's Day at 0010 hours out of which 12 were males and 3 females as at 13:55 hours when GNA went there.

The Police and the Ridge hospitals recorded 3 babies, 2 males and a girl and one female baby respectively as at 12:45 and 13:20 hours when GNA visited there. None of the babies were delivered through caesarean operations and they were all doing well, according to hospitals' sources in Accra.