A 35-year-old woman delivered her baby at the sidewalk along Mango Avenue, Cebu City but succumbed reportedly to complications.

Responders came to attend to the mother, but she refused repeatedly to be rushed to the hospital.

The baby also died.

The woman was identified as Mary Ann Tampos, a resident of Barangay Tisa in Cebu City but who stayed at General Maxilom Avenue.

The woman was going through contractions and manifested signs of labor at past 7 a.m. and gave birth on the sidewalk. A traffic enforcer said she saw the baby's head out of the birth canal. A nurse who happened to pass in the area assisted the woman.

“Nakita namo nga ang bata nag-ung-ong na, pero wa na, lagom na ang bata. Mao to naay nurse niabot murag gi-push gamay, mao to nigawas. Paggawas sa bata mao to patay na jud ang bata, unya ang umbilical cord gikan sa tiyan wa pa mogawas,” Sheila Marie Nicolasora, the traffic enforcer, said.

An ambulance came to take Tampos to the hospital, but the woman asked the ambulance staff that she be taken out of the vehicle. She signed reportedly a waiver.

A friend of the woman identified as Marie Seno urged her to go with the emergency medical team.

“Giingnan siya [sa ambulance staff] ‘nahadlok ka sa bayad wala nay problema kay kami ra mo-kuan, igo ra mi molimpyo sa tiyan, kay para moginhawa ka.’ Ana, siya ‘kaya nako moginhawa, kaya ra nako moginhawa. Ang doktor kwartahan ra ko, praktisan ra ko ninyo, inaug na lang ko,” Seno narrated.

The woman’s live-in partner, Sherwin Sumagang, said that Tampos was unyielding.

“Gahi man, iyaha man matuman gyud,” Sumagang said.