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.
The village is situated in a remote area and does not have proper road connectivity. Last month, a 26-year-old pregnant tribal woman was carried in a makeshift stretcher due to a lack of a proper road in a village in Mokhada taluka here amid heavy rains. She lost her twin infants at birth due to the delay in reaching a medical centre.
Palghar Zilla Parishad president Vaidehi Wadhan told reporters on Sunday that villages in remote areas do not have proper road connectivity. Health authorities have been instructed to take steps and avoid such incidents, she said.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported about another incident of a baby delivered in the open where a video of a woman delivering a child outside the government hospital in Uttar Pradesh had gone viral, following which the district administration terminated the service of a nurse and ordered departmental action against a doctor.
