In a brave act, women railway police saved a newborn and her mother on Monday, who was in critical condition after delivering twins on the Okha-Shalimar Superfast Express. The mother and baby were quickly taken off the train in Nagpur railway station and rushed to Mayo Hospital for urgent care. Unfortunately, one twin didn’t survive, but thanks to the quick action of the railway cops, the baby girl and her mother were both saved.
The baby girl was born prematurely, and the mother in a precarious condition, was carefully wrapped in a bedsheet and rushed to Mayo Hospital for urgent medical care..
At the Hospital, the woman gave birth to a baby girl weighing 900 grams, while the baby boy, born first on the train, was declared dead. The twins were born prematurely, at the end of the woman’s seventh month of pregnancy.
Earlier, a makeshift maternity ward was set up in the A-2 coach by the traveling ticket examiner (TTE) when 25-year-old Neeta Lahare went into labor. Neeta and her husband Chandresh who works as contractor, were heading from Surat to Raipur.
The deputy station manager at Nagpur alerted GRP and RPF, and a team including ASI Jhuma Ingle and other officers was formed to assist the woman as the train arrived at Platform No. 3.
“We were told a pregnant woman needed help, but we didn’t know she had delivered a stillborn and had another baby dangling out. We called a doctor to the scene,” said ASI Ingle. “We carried the woman on double bedsheets to the platform and onto a stretcher.”
With RPF’s help, the stretcher was cleared through the crowd, and the mother and baby were sent to Mayo Hospital with the support of a woman officer.