New Delhi/Patna(Agencies): A
25-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl onboard an NDRF rescue boat plying
on the swollen Burhi Gandak river in flood-affected Bihar on Sunday, officials
said.
The woman was being rescued
from her marooned house in Gobari village of East Champaran district when she
developed severe labour pain and later delivered the baby around 1:40 pm, they
said.
The National Disaster Response
Force (NDRF) team was accompanied by an ASHA (accredited social health
activist) worker who helped in the childbirth, an NDRF spokesperson said in
Delhi.
The rescuers from the 9th
battalion of the NDRF were attending to a drowning incident in the vicinity
when they were informed about the pregnant woman whose village was hit by
floodwaters of the Budhi Gandak river, the spokesperson said.
“The mother and the newborn girl have been
shifted to a public health facility in Banjariya village of Motihari district
by an ambulance and their condition is stated to be stable,” he said.
The spokesperson said NDRF
personnel are trained in medical first responder course and all rescuers are
taught handling of childbirth during an emergency.
“This is the 10th childbirth (including a case
of twins) on an NDRF boat while evacuating expecting mothers from flood-hit
areas since year 2013,” the spokesperson said.
A total of 21 NDRF teams are
deployed in a dozen districts of Bihar for conducting flood rescue and relief
work. PTI
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