A Filipina nurse who requested anonymity said that several Filipino "theatre nurses"--equivalent to nurses assigned to a hospital's operating room--had assisted in Middleton's childbirth on Monday at room 301 of the exclusive Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital.
However, these nurses have been ordered to keep other details of the childbirth to themselves in light of keeping the privacy and security of the royal family.
About 300 Filipino nurses work at St. Mary's Hospital, according to the Filipina nurse interviewed by InterAksyon, adding that Filipinos are "dominant" in terms of number in the said hospital. She herself has been employed at St. Mary's Hospital's admission ward (akin to an accident emergency room) for 13 years now.
"Masaya kaming lahat na dito nanganak si Kate," the Filipina nurse said. (We're all so happy that Kate gave birth in this hospital.)
Besides nurses, the hospital also employs Filipino cleaners, porters, logistics personnel, ambulance service trainers, administrative staff, among others.
At least five other Filipinos working at St. Mary's Hospital said Filipino nurses were indeed assigned at Lindo Wing.
For Jonard Cartagena, an ambulance service trainer in St. Mary's Hospital, the publicity and worldwide attention brought by the royal baby's will definitely help boost sales of retailers of memorabilia and souvenirs that will ride on the event, as well as lure in more tourists.
"London is back in the map," said Cartagena, who has been working in the UK the past 26 years.
More than 200,000 Filipinos live and work in the UK and most of them is in and around London, the capital.
source: interaksyon.com
