Madhya Pradesh: Two migrant women deliver babies in truck and train

Two pregnant migrant women travelling from Maharashtra to Uttar Pradesh delivered babies during their journey on Friday. A woman belonging to a migrant labourers' group of UP returning from Mumbai delivered a healthy baby in a truck while another delivered in Shramik special train near Uchhara with the help of other women in the compartment.

Indore: The migrant workers' travails continue through their journey to home towns in Uttar Pradesh as two migrant women labourers delivered babies in a truck and train.

A woman belonging to a migrant labourers' group of Uttar Pradesh returning from Mumbai, where she worked as a daily wage worker, delivered a healthy baby in a truck near Biaora town in Madhya Pradesh on Friday.

The 30-year-old woman Kaushalya, wife Manoj Kumar, a resident of Sant Kabir Nagar in Basti district went into labour after the truck left Indore. Following which, the truck driver admitted the new born baby and mother to civil hospital in the city.

According to health department sources, the woman has been referred to Rajgarh for examination after the delivery and has been tested for coronavirus.

As per reports, the workers were returning in a truck from Mumbai on Agra-Bombay Road to Basti district in UP.

Another pregnant migrant woman travelling in Shramik special train delivered a baby near Uchhara with the help of other women in the compartment. The new mother Rekha, a resident of Vikrampur, Ghazipur, was travelling in the labourers' special train from Aurangabad with husband Brajesh Jaiswal, when she felt the onset of labour pains.

IANS