Migrant crisis: Fully pregnant and walking back to native, two women deliver on way

Two pregnant women of migrant workers, who are returning to their hometown amid COVID-19 lockdown, delivered babies on their way in Maharashtra.

Mumbai:After the nationwide lockdown triggered a migrant crisis where hundreds of migrant workers are moving back to their native places in whatever mode of transport possible including an ardent walk of hundreds of kilometres together, two pregnant women, wives of migrant labourers on such walking expedition, delivered on the way.

Two such incidents have taken place in Maharashtra on Friday.

In the first incident, Nur Mohammad, his wife Ishrat Mohammad Noor and their three-year-old son Mohammad Numan from Ithagoriganj village in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, were on their way home on foot. They were working as weavers at the Loom Market in Surat.

Noor's wife Irshat was nine months pregnant. However, the family had decided to return to their hometown on foot after the lockdown was announced following corona outbreak.

After walking a distance of 350 km and reaching Jalgaon, Ishrat went into labour and the distraught husband informed some people near the ITI on the highway.

They, in turn, informed the local RSS activist Kavi Kasar about the incident. Kasar immediately called an ambulance and rushed to the spot. Later, Ishrat delivered the baby in an ambulance.

However, her condition deteriorated after delivery and she was rushed to a nearby hospital with the ambulance. Fortunately, Ishrat and her baby survived after timely treatment.

A similar incident took place in Nagpur where the wife of a labourer who was on her way to Madhya Pradesh via Nagpur has given birth to a child in Nagpur.

Sudha Arun Kaul, a 19-year-old woman from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh, gave birth to a baby in the eighth month of her pregnancy.

The woman has given birth safely in the hospital as many social activists rushed to her aid.

Social activist Sumit Somaiya and local Congress ZP member Avantika Lekurwale took the woman to Gumthala Primary Health Center after the woman experienced labour pain on her way.

The woman with the baby is currently shifted to Daga Hospital in Nagpur and their condition is stable.

The Central Government has announced a lockdown to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. Railway services, buses and private vehicles have also been banned.

As a result, in many metros of the state, labourers and workers have started walking towards their homes on railway tracks, bicycles and other roads.