A woman who delivered a baby on train while travelling from Madurai to Mumbai was stranded on CST station for more than an hour on Wednesday night. Pregnant Repekkal (28) was travelling boarded Nagercoil Express from Madurai at 7.15 am on April 15. “A little before Karnataka arrived on the next day, my wife started experiencing pain in her lower abdominal area. She went into labour and delivered a baby boy in the coach,” said Repekkal's husband Hari Joyel (32).
Joyel works as a supervisor in a Panvel-based factory, while Repekkal stays with her mother-in-law Kamalam (48) in Madurai. As summer vacations had commenced, Repekkal who was already nine months pregnant travelled to Mumbai like every year with her son John Christopher (12) and daughter Joy Salomi (8) from Madurai to spend time with her husband. “She was due for delivery after a few days. However, she took the risk of travelling in the ninth month of pregnancy, so that we all could be together for summer holidays,” said Joyel.
On April 16, Repekkal went into labour early in the morning. The railway officials aboard the train alerted a medical team which rushed to attend to the mother and the new born at Wadi station in Karnataka. “We advised the mother and the baby to disembark with her family at Wadi and get admitted to the railway hospital. But the patient decided to travel all the way upto Mumbai,” said V Malegaonkar, PRO, central railway.
“We were told at Wadi by the railway officials that a call will go to CST station as the train pulls in by night and that railway officials will be there to guide us, but after making us wait for close to an hour at the station manager's cabin opposite platform number 8, the officer on duty was extremely unhelpful. They asked us to travel all the way back to Wadi to get a birth certificate issued from the doctors who examined my wife near Karnataka,” said a visibly appalled Joyel. Joyel then rushed his wife and the new born to state-run Cama and Albless Hospital in CST on his own accord.
Dr Rajashri Katke, medical superintendent of Cama and Albless hospital said, "The woman delivered a healthy baby boy weighing 2.2 kgs. They were brought to hospital at 10.40pm. Both mother and child are doing good and will be discharged in a day or two."
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