Asante!
The Swahili word for "thanks"
might be appropriate to Google Translate, after it helped two paramedics
deliver a Congolese woman's baby in Ireland this week.
Men's lifestyle website Joe.ie cited a report by The Corkman news site
that the incident occurred this week between Macroom and Lissarda, when
the paramedics were bringing the woman to a hospital to deliver her
child.
"It’s something that I think I won’t ever
forget as I was translating Swahili into English somewhere on the side
of the road between Macroom and Lissarda," paramedic Gerry McCann said.
McCann and Shane Mulcahy, were taking the woman to the Cork University
Maternity Hospital when the baby was due. The problem, however, was that
the woman spoke limited English.
Thinking quickly, McCann opened Google Translate on his phone to communicate with the woman.
As a result, a “beautiful baby girl" was born, the report said. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
