–Roraima Airways ‘Gerry
Gouveia calls it ‘an amazing magical day’

By Shauna Jemmott
FOR Roraima Airways’ Captain Gerry Gouveia, that a woman should give birth to twins while the aircraft in which she was travelling was mid-air made it “an amazing, magical day”.

It happened around 10:00 hours yesterday when a Roraima Airways aircraft, which was called out to do a ‘medivac’, was 8000 feet in the sky.

The aircraft was being manned at the time by Captains Ryan Persaud and Emil Jahan, who, along with Ministry of Health officials, made the journey from Ogle International to Mahdia, in the Potaro-Siparuni district of Region 8.

Their mission was to bring to Georgetown a pregnant woman they were told was having complications, and in need of urgent help.

Taking to Facebook to relive the experience, Gouveia wrote:
“We did a ‘medivac’ for a pregnant woman with complications.
“During the flight, God intervened and delivered the twins at 8000 feet in the plane.”
His son, Captain Gerry Gouveia Jnr, would later tell the Guyana Chronicle that though several babies were born on Roraima aircrafts during medivac operations, this was their first multiple birth.
“This is the first time we had twins,” Gerry Jnr said, adding that they’re “very cute little babies.”

And though they might appear premature, they survived the ordeal, and are at the Georgetown Public Hospital with their mother, Malinda Srites.

Everyone was excited when they arrived safely at Ogle, he said, adding that it was more than the usual feeling that grips them whenever a ‘medivac’ operation is successful.

“This is exactly why I became a pilot,” he said.