Mumbai: Woman delivers baby boy in moving local train as passengers look on

Mumbai: A 32-year-old woman named Sudevi Pal delivered a healthy baby boy in a moving train on Tuesday, the incident occurred at 4.12 pm. Pal, along with her husband Ram Lal Pal, was traveling to KEM hospital in Mumbai as she had begun to experience labor pains at home.

Ms Pal and her husband had boarded the train from Nahur station but the baby was delivered before the couple could get off the train itself.

Pal and the baby were taken to the Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar by the Vikhroli station master and the Railway Protection Force officials.

Ram Lal Pal, a labourer, said he was travelling in the general compartment while his wife was in the ladies’ compartment and that he got a call within 10 minutes of boarding the train informing him he was now a father.

“I was taking my wife to KEM Hospital to get her admitted. We boarded the train from Nahur station and after 10 minutes I got a call from my wife’s number. A woman passenger informed me that my wife has given birth to a boy.

“I was shocked and didn’t know what to do so I informed other passengers who contacted the Vikroli station master,” he said.

“When the train reached Vikhroli station the station master along with one lady RPF official were present with a stretcher. The commuters and the RPF official helped transport my wife to the ambulance and later took us to Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar,” he added.

“I want to thank the RPF officials and the station master who were present over there as they helped me and my wife”.

The local-train has been the place of birth of many children because of lack of beds at civic hospitals as well as the distance between residences in suburbs and hospitals.