North York General welcomes North York’s 2024 Leap Year Babies

The team at North York General Hospital (NYGH) welcomed its Leap Year 2024 babies who were born throughout the day.

Among some of the proud parents, Elaine Jobel Embido and Jeric Parchejo welcomed baby Zeke, who weighed 6 pounds and 11 ounces, and Thomas Burchat and Ruogu Liu welcomed baby Astrid, who weighed 8lbs and 9 ounces.

Best wishes and congratulations to the families!

NYGH is an academic community hospital, affiliated with the University of Toronto, that has one of the busiest single-site birthing centres in the country. NYGH has also been named Canada’s number one community hospital by Newsweek Magazine and one of Canada’s best employers by Forbes among other national and international recognitions earned by NYGH physicians, nurses and health care teams for high performance and quality of care.