Maha: Tribal woman carried in makeshift stretcher, delivers baby in forest
Palghar: A 21-year-old pregnant tribal woman in a village in Maharashtra's Palghar district was carried in a makeshift stretcher due to a lack of proper road and delivered a baby midway in a dense and dark forest.
A medical officer said that the tribal woman from Eina village in Jawhar taluka went into labour on the night of Saturday-Sunday.
As there was no proper road connectivity to the nearest hospital, villagers carried her in a 'dholi' (makeshift stretcher) through a thick forest at around 3 am for five kilometers.
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A video showing some people carrying the woman through the forest surfaced on social media platforms. The medical officer said the woman delivered a baby girl midway in the forest.
The mother and child were admitted to Jawhar Patangshah Sub District Hospital in the early hours of Sunday. Both of them are fine now, the hospital's medical superintendent Dr. Ramdas Marad said.
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