New Delhi: Acting on a distress message, the Army evacuated a pregnant woman from her house in the submerged Sher-e-Shafi locality in Srinagar to the military hospital where she gave birth to a baby boy.
“We received a message in the afternoon that one Arshida, a resident of Pampore area in Srinagar, was in labour pains and had to be evacuated”, Army’s Additional Director General (Public Information) Shokin Chauhan said.
The troops first brought her out of the house where she was stranded and then moved to another place in boats. From there, she was airlifted to the Army Base Hospital where she gave birth to a healthy baby boy, he said.
Both the mother and the baby are safe, Army officials said.
The Army has so far received around 15,000 distress messages on its website, twitter handle and the Facebook page and has been passing on the information to local commanders on the WhatsApp application.
Using this route, the force had on Tuesday saved a nine-month pregnant woman from a locality in Jawahar Bagh area and has been successfully used in directing troops to the needy.