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Bhabha hospital orders probe after woman delivers in autorickshaw

On Tuesday, a 34-week pregnant woman came to the hospital's Out Patient Department (OPD). The doctors who attended to her asked her to return home as she was not in labour. The woman went into labour as soon as she left the hospital.

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Civic-run Bhabha hospital in Bandra has ordered a probe after a pregnant woman, who was asked to return home by doctors, delivered in an autorickshaw soon after. The child was reportedly stillborn.

On Tuesday, a 34-week pregnant woman came to the hospital's Out Patient Department (OPD). The doctors who attended to her asked her to return home as she was not in labour. The woman went into labour as soon as she left the hospital.

"She took a autorickshaw to come home but it was stuck in the traffic. She delivered a stillborn child. When she was brought to the hospital the umbilical cord and the placenta was still inside her," said Dr Pradeep Jadhav, medical superintendent of the hospital.

The mother's condition is reported to be stable. "It was a case of precipate delivery. We have ordered a probe," he added.

What is precipate delivery?

It is a delivery which is a result of an unusually rapid labour and culminates in the rapid, spontaneous expulsion of the infant.

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