Acting Corporal (CPL) Dominique Gonsalves Sabola of the Guyana Defence Force’s Medical Corps, safely delivered a healthy baby boy at Tshau Creek, Kaikan, Region Seven, at 0546h this morning.
The mother of the child is 35-year-old Yancelis Diaz.
“Reports are that both mother and child are healthy and doing fine,” GDF said on its Facebook page this morning.
Corporal Sabola is a Grade II Medical Assistant who enlisted in the GDF in April of 2013. He successfully completed the Grade III Medical Assistant Course in 2014, and, in 2018, successfully completed the Junior Leaders’ Course.
In 2019, he successfully completed the Grade II Medical Assistant Course. He is one of the Force’s frontline medical personnel serving in the interior of Guyana.
Sabola is thankful for the opportunity to serve in the GDF, particularly at the Medical Corps. He credits his mother, grandmother and the GDF family for supporting him in achieving his dreams, the Force said.
Chief of Staff of the GDF Brigadier Godfrey Bess congratulated both Sabola and Diaz.
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