Six months old baby among 6 new cases
KUCHING: Sarawak recorded six new positive Covid-19 cases yesterday, bringing the tally of cases to 997. The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) said five of the cases were reported in Kuching and one in Lawas. Two cases, Case 993 and Case 994, involving locals were detected through self-screening at a private health facility on Nov […]
Woman charged with dumping newborn
KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court here today ordered a woman, charged with hiding the birth of and throwing her newborn baby, to be released on RM3,000 bail pending a social report. Magistrate Mohd Syukri Mokhyar ordered the accused – aged 21 – to be released on bail with her father as guarantor. The accused, from Bandar […]
8,000 babies to have Pustaka reading kits
KUCHING: The Sarawak State Library (Pustaka) is targeting 8,000 newborn babies to receive reading kits under the ‘Reading Seeds’ programme this year. Its chief executive officer (CEO) Dr Rashidah Bolhassan said the kits would be distributed to the mothers of the babies throughout the state through its collaboration with the Ministry of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, […]
8,828 babies register for EFS
KUCHING: A total of 8,828 Sarawakian babies who were born this year have registered for the Endowment Fund Sarawak (EFS) 2020. The number represents 92 percent of the total 9,630 Sarawakian babies born in the first five months of this year. EFS is an initiative by the state government where every Sarawakian newborn is entitled […]
Birthed on wheels
Witnessing childbirth is one of the most beautiful and amazing experiences ever. For a couple, their experience was very much unexpected, unforgettable and quite simply — “magical”. Truly an unforgettable experience It was an unexpected event that unfolded on the dawn of May 4, 2018. Giacherie Tipik described the event as though, “The whole universe […]
Baby boom or not, Sarawak welcomes newborns
KUCHING: Sarawak is prepared to face the anticipated baby boom early next year following the movement control order (MCO), said Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah. “This is a government that cares. Whether there is going to be a baby boom or not, Sarawak is big enough to […]
Our ways of coping with new babies
When we encourage new parents to ‘treasure these moments because they don’t last forever,’ we need to remember to also reassure them that they will survive these moments because they don’t last forever. L R Knost, award-winning author and social justice activist My wife is the kind of person who starts foaming at the mouth […]
Cries lead farmer to newborn
SIBU: A padi farmer was shocked to find a healthy baby girl abandoned in a bush outside his home in Sibu Jaya. Sibu district police chief ACP Stanley Jonathan Ringgit said the 45-year old man came out of his house to dispose of rubbish at 9.30am yesterday, when he heard the cries of a baby […]
Govt hospitals welcome 64 New Year babies
KUCHING: Sixty-four babies entered the world after the stroke of midnight on Jan 1 at government hospitals across Sarawak. State Health Department director Dr Jamilah Hashim said the New Year’s Day babies were delivered at government hospitals in the state between 12am and 5pm on Wednesday. 35 of the newborns were girls while the remaining […]
43 babies arrive on Christmas Eve
KUCHING: It was the greatest Christmas gift for several families as a total of 34 newborn babies have arrived on Christmas Eve at Sarawak General Hospital. In welcoming the Christmas newborns (16 boys and 18 girls), a matron of the labour ward said the earliest arrival was at 1.06am to a Bidayuh mother from Kampung […]
