Woman delivers baby in ambulance

A woman delivered a baby in an ambulance in wee hours of Monday in Jaipur. She had labour pain while her way to the hospital for delivery and the ambulance staff helped the woman deliver. The woman and newborn both are reportedly healthy.

The incident took place in Bassi, around 15km from the capital. One Kailashi Devi (27), wife of Ramesh Lohar, a resident of Danau Kalan village in Bassi block had labour pain on Sunday night. Her husband called the 108 ambulance at around 2 am. The ambulance reached the spot within 40 minutes. Considering the situation, Madhushankar Meena, Emergency Medical Technician on the ambulance, took the decision to perform delivery in the ambulance. 

Driver Rohitash Kumar stopped the ambulance by the side of road and Meena conducted the delivery. Kailashi delivered a baby girl. Both mother and newborn were rushed to the nearest Community Health Center at Bassi where doctors checked of both and admitted them to the hospital.

This is yet another incident in which a woman delivered a baby outside the hospital.  Health experts attribute most of these incidents to the delay in the decision by family members of the pregnant woman that results in a delivery before she could be reached or admitted to any health facility. Recently, three incidents of ‘open sky delivery’ were reported last month in Jhunjhunu, Behror and Barmer.