KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – After almost a week of heartbreaking news from earthquake-hit Nepal, there was a small but beautiful moment of joy.
A baby girl was born Friday to a young Nepalese couple in one of the field hospitals set up by foreign nations to bring emergency aid to the country.
Both the mother and the baby, who hasn’t been named yet, are doing well.
Lata Chand, 19, was heavily pregnant when the magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck April 25. She and her husband ran out of their house in panic. Their home was undamaged, but the hospital where she was to give birth was forced to close.
On Friday, they went instead to a field hospital set up by the Israeli military, where the baby was born.