Bicycle borne woman delivers dead baby on way to hospital

Nabarangpur: Just two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Odisha and laid emphasis on the healthcare of pregnant women and infants in the state, a pregnant woman in tribal dominated Nabarangpur district delivered a dead baby while being taken to the hospital on a bicycle because there was no ambulance available.

According to reports, the incident took place at Gomioda village under Jharigaon block in the district, where a pregnant woman had to deliver on the way to the hospital as neither an 102 nor 108 ambulance reached in time.

According to sources, Bansi Gouda, a resident of the village called 102 and 108 ambulances when her wife felt labour pain but in vain. Finding no other option, Gouda took her wife to the hospital on a bi-cycle but his wife delivered a dead baby boy before reaching the hospital, the sources added.

Bansi Gouda, husband of the victim said, “I had to take my wife to hospital on a bicycle as the ambulance did not come to take her to hospital. On the way to hospital, she delivered a dead baby boy.”