Bihar floods: NDRF help woman deliver baby on board its boat

Patna, Aug 24 (PTI) Working round-the-clock to help floodvictims in Bihar, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)personnel rendered timely help to three marooned pregnantwomen at separate places deliver their babies safely. The NDRF men helped a pregnant woman in Birpur delivera healthy baby boy on board its relief boat itself in Raghopurblock of Vaishali district today, Commandant of 9th battalionof NDRF Vijay Sinha told PTI. He said the woman named Roshni, who was being ferried to asafer place, experienced acute labour pain following whichNDRF pharmacist Jayshankar helped her deliver a healthy babyboy on board the boat itself. The new-born and the mother were taken to Mahnar primaryhealth centre for proper medicare, Sinha said. Raghopur, the Assembly constituency of deputy chiefminister Tejaswi Yadav, is flooded due to the swollen Ganga. Yesterday, the NDRF personnel had helped two maroonedpregnant ladies in distress. They took a woman experiencing labour pain at Gyaspurvillage in Bhakhtiyarpur of Patna district to the nearestprimary health centre last night, the Commandant said. "Due to the timely assistance, the woman delivered ahealthy baby girl at Bhakhtiyarpur PHC," he said. The NDRF personnel had earlier heard cries of help ofanother pregnant lady at Sinha village in Barhara block ofBhojpur district and ferried her to the nearest hospital forsafe delivery, he added. Engaged in relief and rescue of marooned people, theNDRF personnel came to know about the woman in Bhojpur fromthe Disaster Management department control room and rushed tohelp the 22-year-old woman who was in labour pain. The Bihta-based NDRF Commandant said the force personnelget training in child birth to help people in need. He said during the floods last year, a NDRF team hadhelped a woman in Ara town give birth to a baby in midstreamGanga on board one of the boats of the central force. Similarly, another lady in Bahraich in Uttar Pradeshreceived timely help from the NDRF to deliver safely duringfloods there. The Commandant said in the Ara case last year, the familyhad named the baby boy ‘NDRF Singh’ out of gratitude for thehelp extended by the NDRF personnel. PTI SNS DKBKIS