A woman gave birth to a child in the toilet of a passenger train at Indore railway station. The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon, when the woman identified as Ranu Verma along with her husband Mahesh Verma had boarded a Shujalpur-bound train.
However, before the train could have chugged off for its next destination, the woman suffered a labor pain and as she went inside train’s toilet, she delivered a child who slipped through toilet’s pipe and fell on the railway track.
When the woman informed about the matter to her husband, he along with fellow passengers got down to platform and found the child lying on the railway track.
At the same time, some railway police jawans also arrived there, lifted child from the railway track and sent it to M Y hospital, where condition of both child his mother is stated to be stable and out of danger.
Woman’s husband Mahesh Sharma briefing about the incident said that he along with her seven months pregnant wife was going to his sister’s place in Shujalpur for latter’s delivery. Accordingly, he boarded a passenger train for Shujalpur.
However, before the train could have left the railway station, his wife suffered pain in her stomach.
She immediately went inside the train’s toilet where she delivered the child.
However, the child slipped through the pipe of the toilet and fell on the railway track.
GRP TI M l Chowhan informed that a railway police constable Deepu Singh along with fellow passengers picked up child from the railway track and later sent the child and his parents to M Y Hospital by a vehicle of railway police.
According to M Y hospital superintendent, Dr K D Bhatnagar, both mother and child are save and healthy, though child is a little bit weak because of premature delivery but he is in a better condition with no any visible damage to his body.
The child is currently in the ICU of the hospital,
he added.