WOMAN GIVES BIRTH, SITS FOR EXAM 30 MINUTES LATER

In an inspiring and heartwarming case, a woman in Ethiopia has reportedly taken a series of exams from her hospital bed only 30 minutes after giving birth.

As per The Independent reports, Almaz Derese, 21, had been studying during her pregnancy, when she went into labour shortly before the exams were set to begin on Monday. The 21-year-old’s baby boy is said to be doing well. She is expected to sit for her remaining subjects at the local exam centre later this week.

She did not want to wait until next year for the annual secondary school exams, so she took the tests only half an hour after her son was born, according to the BBC.

Media reports say that, Almaz sat for Maths, English, Amharic while sitting up in bed in the Karl Metu hospital in western Ethiopia’s Oromia region. She had originally hoped to undertake the exams in plenty time for the birth, but they had to be delayed because of Ramadan.

Her husband Tadese Tulu then persuaded the school to let her to take the tests from the hospital. "Because I was rushing to sit the exam, my labour wasn’t difficult at all,” Almaz told BBC’s Oromo language service.

The 21-year-old mother is now set to embark on a two-year course with the aim of going to university.