Woman delivers baby on train

Woman delivers baby on train

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. H Rebekka, 28, was travelling on Nagercoil Express on April 15. “A little before Karnataka arrived the next day, my wife went into labour and delivered a boy in the coach,” said Hari Joyel, 32. Joyel works as a supervisor in a Panvel factory, while Rebekka stays with her mother-in-law in Madurai. “We advised her to disembark with her family at Wadi and get admitted to the railway hospital. But she decided not to,” said V Malegaonkar, PRO, CR. “Wadi railway officials told us that a call will go to CST as the train pulls in by night and officials will be there to guide us, but after making us wait for an hour at the station manager’s cabin, the officer on duty was very unhelpful. They asked us to go back to Wadi to get a birth certificate issued from the doctors who examined my wife near Karnataka,” he said.