Train makes unscheduled stop for woman in labour

Debabrata.Mohapatra@timesgroup.com  25.05.2020

Bhubaneswar/Jharsuguda: The wife of a migrant worker gave birth to a baby girl inside a police van in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district while she was being taken to hospital on Sunday. The delivery comes four days after a woman gave birth to a girl inside a fire service van during Cyclone Amphan in Kendrapada district on May 20.

PayalKumari(25)wastravelling to Danapur (Bihar) from Secunderabad (Telangana) in a Shramik Express with her husband and three-year-old son when she went into labour, forcing railway officials to make an unscheduled stop at Jharsuguda and send an SOS to the police to shift her to a nearby hospital.

“We were alerted by the Railways abouttheemergency case involving the pregnant woman’s plight. The train was scheduled to pass through Jharsuguda junction at 2.20pm and not stop there. However, a technical halt was scheduled for the woman,” Jharsuguda SPRahulPRsaid.

Jharsuguda SHO Sabitri Bal reachedthestation on time to help Payal. “Bal and her staff were taking Payal to the district headquarters hospital in a PCR van, when she gave birth in the vehicle midway to the hospital,” Rahul said.

Sabitri said the mother and daughter are fine. “We had alerted the hospital staff, who were ready to attend to the woman andher baby.Arrangements are being made for their food, shelter and transport to take them back to their native place,” she added.

Pregnant woman dies outside pvt hosp

Pilibhit: A six months pregnant woman died outside a private hospital in Pilibhit on Saturday night after she was allegedly denied admission by several hospitals because her locality was sealed a few days ago upon return of migrant labourers in a large number.

Taking cognisance of the woman’s death despite the fact that “private hospitals have been directed to admit and treat all emergency cases”, district magistrate Vaibhav Shrivastav said, “The case will be probed thoroughly and we will bring the culprits to book.” TNN