Home Guard Jawans Help Woman Deliver Baby In Rain-Hit Bijapur
NDTV
The Home Guard personnel were involved in rescue work in the rain-affected areas of the district, when they were alerted about a woman who had to be shifted to a sub-health centre for delivery in the morning, a senior official said.
A team of Home Guard jawans helped a tribal woman deliver a baby on the banks of a swollen river in Chhattisgarh's rain-hit Bijapur district on Sunday, police said.
The Home Guard personnel were involved in rescue work in the rain-affected areas of the district, when they were alerted about a woman who had to be shifted to a sub-health centre for delivery in the morning, a senior official said.
Sarita Gondi started experiencing labour pains even as the jawans were shifting her to a rescue boat to take her across a river near Jhorgaya village in Gangaloor tehsil of the district, he said.
The district administration had received a call from the family of the woman, who was in the advanced stages of pregnancy, seeking help to cross a river that flows along the village to reach a sub-health centre, he said.