Vipin Khadse, a 24-year-old final year MBBS student helped a woman give birth to a baby boy on board the Ahmedabad-Puri Express with instructions from his seniors through WhatsApp.
The boy performed a complicated delivery when 24-year old Chitralekha went into labour on the train on Friday.
According to the report, the train was about 30km from Nagpur when Chitralekha’s relatives pulled the chain to halt the train near Wardha junction. The MBBS was quoted saying that;
“The ticket collector and guard were looking for a doctor on the train. Initially, I kept quiet presuming there could be some experienced doctor. But, when they came for a second round of inquiry, I offered to help,” he said.
Chitralekha and her husband had boarded the train at Ahmedabad, where they work as labourers. They were heading to Raipur in Chhattisgarh. When Khadse went to attend her, she was bleeding profusely and was in great pain. In a show of humanity, passengers vacated the compartment. The women passengers helped convert the compartment into a makeshift delivery room.
“The delivery was complicated because instead of the head, the baby’s shoulder was hanging out of the vagina. I uploaded a photo in a WhatsApp group of doctors for help. A senior resident Shikha Malik guided me on the phone to conduct the delivery,” Khadse said. “I had to use chilled water bottles to stop her bleeding. The amniotic fluid had completely dried. A midwife on the train helped me,” Khadse, who aspires to be a surgeon said, adding that every doctor should know how to help a woman in labour.
The new parents were allowed to continue their travel with medication as the medical assistance from the railways were provided to them.
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