Railways is playing a proactive role in the lives of many needy patients including pregnant women during the Covid19 crisis. In another case of helping a pregnant woman who was travelling in 01093 Mumbai-Varanasi special who was in labour when the train was about to reach Igatpuri in the wee hours of 26.7.2020, Shri Awadesh Kumar, Deputy Station Manager, Igatpuri immediately informed railway health unit at Igatpuri for assistance.
Dr. Jyotsana, Additional Divisional Medical Officer and team attended the patient and advised her to detrain at Igatpuri. However, Priyanka the lady in labour pain delivered a healthy baby at the station itself with the assistance of the railway medical team. The new born and the lady were shifted to Rural Hospital, Igatpuri by ambulance for postnatal treatment.
