A 25 year old woman has given birth to a baby boy just hours after she was recued from the Mediterranean by MSF.

Collins from Cameroon was rescued by the MSF vessel the Dignity I on Sunday. She was 240 people were rescued that morning. She was traveling in a rubber boat with 120 others six of them children.

Collins was an assistant nurse in a military hospital in Douala, Cameroon. After two years of working with no pay, she and her husband decided to head to Banki, in the north of the country. The town was captured by Boko Haram, and Collins and her husband were kidnapped and held in the bush.

After a couple of months, she managed to escape with the help of an older woman and started a six-month journey that finally brought her to Libya.

According to MSF she was already eight months pregnant at that time and she was beaten while the women traveling with her were raped.

When the Dignity I crew found Collins on a rubber boat at 8 am in the morning, her face showed that she was in pain. The midwife on board, helped Collins deliver a baby boy she called Divan. He is Collins´ second child. Besides her husband, who she has had no news of since leaving Cameroon, she also left behind a two-year-old son with her mother in Douala, Warren.

After the delivery, Collins was transferred to the Spanish Guardia Civil boat that will take mother and son to Italy.