Maharashtra: Woman delivers baby in one-rupee clinic at Thane station
Thane: A 29-year-old woman travelling to Mumbai in a train gave birth to a baby boy in a clinic at Maharashtra's Thane railway station on October 9 morning, an official said.
The woman, started having labour pains while she was heading from Karjat (in adjoining Raigad district) to Parel in neighbouring Mumbai, located around 35 km from here, in a suburban train. The railway officials immediately informed the doctor in-charge at the 'One-Rupee Clinic', located on platform no. 2 of the Thane station.
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The woman was then rushed to the clinic where she delivered the child around 6.30 am, said Dr Rahul Ghule, CEO of the clinic, which is run by a private body. "Both the mother and child are fine and they have been shifted to a private hospital," he said, adding that it was the 10th delivery in the clinic at Thane station.
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