A pregnant woman delivered a baby girl inside an auto-rickshaw parked outside the Emergency Ward of the Civil Hospital in Khanna.
The woman, a resident of Avtar Nagar, Lalheri Road, experienced labour pains. After which, her husband, Pahadu, hired an auto-rickshaw from Lalheri Chowk to rush her to a hospital. The auto driver said he brought the couple from a distance of about 1.5 km from the hospital. As the vehicle entered the hospital premises and stopped near the emergency ward, the woman gave birth inside the auto.
Her family members alerted hospital staff who rushed to the spot. The emergency team safely shifted the mother and newborn from the vehicle to the labour room on a wheelchair. Doctors confirmed that both mother and child are stable and healthy.
The husband of the woman admitted that he was unaware of the government’s free 108 ambulance service, due to which they hired an auto-rickshaw.
