Overview
- Limpopo health facilities reported 26 New Year’s Day births, with 15 boys and 11 girls, according to spokesperson Percy Moagi.
- Free State hospitals delivered 20 babies on January 1, comprising 12 boys and 8 girls across provincial facilities.
- Sister Puseletso Rens, head of nursing at National Hospital in Bloemfontein, said staff felt inspired by the New Year deliveries despite ongoing staff shortages.
- Health authorities visited hospitals to welcome families and presented gifts to mothers and newborns.
- In the Eastern Cape, 38 babies were born by 10am and 69 intern doctors started at Frere Hospital, provincial officials said.