A woman gave birth to a baby on a train with the help of a medical student who used WhatsApp as the medium to get instructions from his seniors.
The final year MBBS student Vipin Khadse managed to perform a complicated delivery on the train after 24-year old Chitralekha went into labour on the Ahmedabad-Puri Express on Friday, reported The Times of India.
Khadse is currently pursuing his course at the Nagpur-based Government Medical College & Hospital.
Chitralekha had boarded the train along with her husband at Ahmedabad where they work as labourers. Just 30 kilometres before Nagpur, her relatives had to pull the chain near Wardha junction after her condition deteriorated.
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Khadse offered to help them when the ticket collector and guard were looking for a doctor in the train.
Subsequently, with the help of other women who made a makeshift delivery room in the compartment Khadse managed to execute the delivery. It was nothing more than a challenge for a young medical student as the delivery was complicated because instead of the head, the baby's shoulder was hanging out of the vagina, the report adds.
But wasting no time, Khadse sent pictures to his senior doctors who guided him to complete the delivery.
In India, nearly five women die every hour in India from complications developed during childbirth, WHO has said.
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Nearly 45,000 mothers die due to causes related to childbirth every year in India which accounts for 17 per cent of such deaths globally, according to the global health body.
