Woman delivers baby after alighting from Shramik special in Daltonganj

Daltonganj: A

migrant

lady identified as Rupa Kumari (21) delivered a

baby

boy soon after deboarding a shramik special train which arrived at Daltonganj from Panvel in Maharashtra in the early hours of Sunday.

Rupa went into labour pain at 2.30am as the train chugged into Daltonganj railway station. Soon after getting information, authorities rushed her to a nearby government hospital, 2km away from the railway station. Two hours later, she delivered a male child.

Officials said Rupa and her husband Rahul Thakur hail from Kander village in Bokaro district and were a part of the 1,550 migrants who returned to Jharkhand from Maharashtra in the special train.

Sadar SDPO Sandip Kumar Gupta, who was present at platform number 3 when the train arrived here, said, “The lady was in a great pain. We realised her pregnancy was in an advanced stage and rushed her to the hospital.”

He added, “A medical staff present at the railway station called up civil surgeon John F Kennedy and sought help in getting her admitted to Palamu Medical College And Hospital.”

Kennedy said he got a call around 2.45am when he rushed an ambulance to Daltonganj railway station. He said, “Her delivery was normal. This is her first delivery and both the mother and child are healthy.”

He added the couple has to stay in a quarantine centre as they returned from a red zone. “The couple and the infant will be in an institutional quarantine in our hospital building.”

A senior doctor of Palamu Medical College And Hospital, Anil Kumar Singh said, “The infant has been administered birth dose which is also called zero dose which consists of immunization for hepatitis B, polio and BCG.”