Rabat – In a remote village in the mountains of the province of Tinghir, a young Moroccan nurse, Ilyas Chtioui, became the unlikely life artery for a woman at work who occurred in the middle of floods and isolation to deliver her baby.
The nurse, which was re -assigned to the AIT Hamou Ou Saïd Health Center, received an urgent call on Sunday. A woman in a distant hamlet had gone to work, but streets that led to her house had disappeared under Increasing water.
No ambulance could reach them, and no doctor or no midwife was nearby.
He made the trip alone and defied the consequences of heavy rains that turned the traces into rivers. On his arrival he was face to face with a tense emergency, miles away from the next equipped facility and without support.
He turned to his phone. Midwives from the Tinghir Provincial Hospital and the Amesmrir Health Center led him through a video call. He listened carefully, followed her instructions step by step and kept his focus when the hours stretched.
The delivery lasted over an hour. The room lacked medical tools, and the pressure drilled it on him. But the newborn girl came safe and cried and healthy in his arms. The nurse remained calm and steady, his training was tested far beyond the classroom.
He didn’t go after birth. After streets were still blocked, he stayed on the family side and watched through the mother and her newborn to the weather conditions allowed You will reach a nearby health facility for aftercare.
In this quiet mountain home without street in sight and without help nearby, it was a young nurse, a mother and a newborn – three strangers who were bound by courage, instinct and a moment that became a story of calm heroism.
