{"id":55620,"date":"2026-08-05T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/baby-born-in-taxi-verulam-cbd-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:14:20","slug":"baby-born-in-taxi-verulam-cbd-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/baby-born-in-taxi-verulam-cbd-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Born in Taxi:  Verulam CBD &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received multiple calls for urgent medical assistance at approximately 10:06 today (Wednesday) after a woman went into labour while travelling in a minibus taxi in the Verulam CBD &#8211; KZN.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics &amp;Reaction Officers arrived at the taxi rank on Ireland Street at 10:10 and found that the 27-year-old mother had already delivered a healthy baby boy inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics immediately attended to both mother and newborn, cut the umbilical cord, and ensured they were stable before transporting Baby Mbambo and the mother to Osindisweni Government Hospital (OGH) for further medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Both mother and baby were reported to be in a stable condition&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78196&#038;page=baby-born-in-taxi-verulam-cbd-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received multiple calls for urgent medical assistance at approximately 10:06 today (Wednesday) after a woman went into labour while travelling in a minibus taxi in the Verulam CBD &#8211; KZN. Paramedics &amp;Reaction Officers arrived at the taxi rank on Ireland Street at 10:10 and found that the 27-year-old mother had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-55620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}