RPF officers help a Bihar woman deliver her baby inside a train coach. | (Photo Courtesy: RPF, Anand Vihar Railway Station)
New Delhi, February 6: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) extended their life-saving help to a woman from Bihar’s Samstipur, who gave birth to a girl child in a train coach at Delhi’s Anand Vihar Railway Station on Thursday.
According to the news agency ANI, RPF Sub-Inspector Naveen Kumari was on duty on Thursday and took charge of the situation. With the help of a police constable and other passengers, the officer assisted the mother in delivering her child. The mother and the newborn were later transferred to a hospital for further care.
“I was on duty when I got the information. I called the ambulance. A lady from Bihar’s Samastipur was having labour pain. With the help of a police constable and other women in the coach, we helped in the delivery and later we sent them to hospital,” Kumari told ANI.
As per RPF Inspector Shailendra Kumar, the mother and the child are both fine now. “We received the information from a train that goes to Saharsa from Anand Vihar, about the labour pain of the woman. Our lady Sub-Inspector, along with other staff went there and with the help of other women in coach, the delivery was done. Later, an ambulance came and we sent them to the hospital. Both newborn and the mother are doing well,” he told the news agency.
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In a similar incident in 2024, a bus conductor and fellow women passengers helped a woman deliver her child on a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) bus. The woman, identified as Shweta Ratnam, reportedly experienced intense labour pain while travelling from the Musheerabad Depot on a 1Z RTC bus.
She was reportedly fine upon she boarding the bus from Aramghar, however, the situation worsened as the bus reached Bahadurpura. The conductor, identified as R Saroja, and other women passengers were later applauded by TGSRTC Managing Director, VC Sajjanar for their quick-decision making and humanitarian gesture.
