Woman gives birth on EVA Air flight bound for Taipei
Woman gives birth on EVA Air flight bound for Taipei
2024-02-15
An EVA Air flight landed in Taipei 19 minutes early on Thursday, with one more passenger than it did upon takeoff. A pregnant woman went into labor during the flight, leading to a mid-air emergency delivery. Thanks to the help of crew and four doctors onboard, both mom and baby are safe and well.
Lin Yung-chi
FTV reporter
This is the first time in almost 10 years that Songshan Airport had a passenger give birth while on a plane. This plane was an EVA Air flight that departed from Haneda Airport at 9:55 a.m. and was flying to Taiwan. The plane just happened to have four doctors on board who ended up working together.
According to a passenger, flight attendants had called for help over the plane’s speakers.
Passenger on plane
Over the speakers, I heard that they needed the help of health care professionals. But I didn’t know what was happening. I didn’t see anything happen. Everyone was very quiet. We were very calm.
This plane was scheduled to land at 1:25 pm. But with a woman about to give birth, EVA Air contacted the control tower to get permission for a priority landing. With an ambulance at the ready, the plane landed at 1:06 p.m., and the mother and newborn were sent to the hospital. A Taiwanese influencer revealed that of the four doctors on board, one was her husband.
Wife of one doctor
My husband, he works in the U.S. He specializes in anesthesiology and internal medicine. When they were called to help, that pregnant mother was already up in first class. They had originally discussed with the chief flight attendant whether the plane should make an emergency landing in Fukuoka, but it seems like when they were talking the mom’s water had broken. The other three doctors weren’t OB-GYN doctors either, but, despite it being a close call, in the end it all worked out, because the mom and child are both doing well.
The airline’s policy is that passengers 36 or more weeks pregnant with one child are not permitted to board. Passengers 28 or more weeks pregnant must have a doctor’s note. This passenger was believed to be less than 28 weeks pregnant. But even at this stage, the risk of an in-flight premature delivery is not negligible.
Liu Wei-Min
Taipei Medical University Hospital
In a normal operating room, if there’s an emergency because the baby can’t be delivered naturally, then a C-section can be done if necessary. If you’re on a plane and the baby won’t come out, then that’s the most dangerous point in time. If this type of situation doesn’t happen, once the child is delivered you still need to be careful about caring for the child and cleaning it up. But I think the overall risk here and the risk of getting an infection isn’t all that high.
The doctor said that now that the birth was over, all that was needed to be done was to care for the baby. Some speculate that the baby would be awarded a lifetime of free flights from EVA Air. In response, the airline said this perk was not company policy.
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長榮航空日本羽田飛往台北松山航班 機上孕婦緊急生產
2024-02-15
週四一架長榮航空由日本羽田，飛往台北松山機場的航班，發生有孕婦要緊急生產，幸好飛機上有四名醫生，雖然都不是婦產科背景，但在空服員的協助下，順利產下一名男嬰，母子均安已送往醫院。而這也是近十年來，松山機場首度發生，有孕婦在機上分娩的事件。
[[民視記者 林詠琪]]
“松山機場近十年來再度發生，有乘客在飛機上生小孩。這架飛機，就是長榮航空在9點55分，從東京羽田飛往台灣的班機，上頭剛好有四名醫生合力幫忙。”
同班機的乘客透露，當時有聽到空服員廣播求救。
[[同機乘客]]
“有聽到廣播說，需要醫護人員的幫忙，(我當時)不知道發生什麼事，沒有看到。大家都很安靜，都是很鎮定的。”
這架班機原定下午1點25分降落，一名孕婦緊急在機上分娩，長榮立即通報塔台，取得優先降落權，並安排救護車待命，提前在1點06分落地，將產婦及新生兒送往醫院。一名網紅「中古小姐」透露，在機上幫忙接生的四名醫師，其中一位就是她的先生。
[[聲源:接生醫生的太太]]
“我先生他是在美國工作，他是麻醉科跟內科。他們被徵召的時候，那個孕婦已經在頭等艙，本來討論是有跟座艙長討論說，是不是應該迫降在福岡，可是好像在討論的過程中，媽媽的羊水就破了。其他三位醫生其實也不是婦產科，最後結果就是真的是好險，就是媽媽跟小孩都是平安的。”
其實，航空公司規定，不接受單胞胎懷孕36週以上，超過28週以上得開出醫師證明，這名孕婦疑似是懷孕28周以下，只是在飛機上生產風險可不小。
[[北醫婦產科主任 劉偉民]]
“正常的開刀房裡面，萬一生不出來緊急的時候，需要可以剖腹產。哪裡出不來了，這時候是最危險的時刻，所以如果當時沒有這種狀況發生，把孩子生下來之後，如果你很細心地照顧，把他清理，我覺得這風險，感染的風險不高。”
醫生強調過了生產這關，好好照顧就不用太擔心。外界也好奇，男嬰是能享有終身免費搭機的福利，對此，長榮航空表示，無此慣例。
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