The Firefighters of the Portuguese City of Moita Become Matrons: 15 Births in a Year

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Neither Paulo Medina nor Hugo Rodrigues became firefighters for this. What they want to do is to extinguish fires. What they also do more and more often is to manage deliveries in ambulances. “Life does not wait,” repeats as a mantra Pedro Ferreira, the fire commander of Moita, about 40 kilometers from Lisbon. The deliveries that occurred on stretchers of ambulances in the town of 70,000 inhabitants, on the southern margin of the Tagus estuary, …