The first passengers that taxi driver Mohamad Nazaruddin picked up when he started his shift on Monday were a pregnant woman and her husband who needed to get to a hospital for a check-up.
Little did he know that he would get an additional passenger en route — a baby girl delivered right in his SMRT cab.
It was during the ride that the 39-year-old cabbie noticed the expecting lady — Ma.elena del Rosario Ortiz — was visibly in pain. Nazaruddin quickly switched his route to get to the nearest hospital, but the baby was already coming out. The infant was delivered right there and then even before they arrived at the hospital, and Nazaruddin provided much-needed advice and reassurance to the couple, including instructions on what they had to do to ensure the baby was fine.